AI and the Future of Work: Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace, Business, Ethics, HR, and IT for AI Enthusiasts, Leaders and Academics
🏆 Ranked #3, Best 30 HR Tech Podcasts in the US — Million Podcasts (2026). Host Dan Turchin, PeopleReign CEO, explores how AI is changing the workplace. He interviews thought leaders and technologists from industry and academia who share their experiences and insights about artificial intelligence and what it means to be human in the era of AI-driven automation. Learn more about PeopleReign, the system of intelligence for IT and HR employee service: http://www.peoplereign.io.
AI and the Future of Work: Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace, Business, Ethics, HR, and IT for AI Enthusiasts, Leaders and Academics
SE 27: AI and the Next Generation: What We Can Learn from Them (International Youth Day Special Episode)
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Every August 12, the world observes International Youth Day, and this past July 15 marked World Youth Skills Day. Both are good moments to remember what we owe the people entering the workforce: paths, tools, and advice that inspire them, not warnings that scare them.
In this special August compilation episode of AI and the Future of Work, we bring back four former guests whose conversations point to the same idea: AI is not a threat. It is an opportunity, and the people starting their careers right now hold an unfair advantage. They have not spent years absorbing policies and habits that are already obsolete, so they get to begin from what is possible instead of unlearning what used to be true.
From building AI into daily work, to leadership teams learning from their newest employees, to understanding what becomes more valuable when AI makes creation easier, this episode explores how the next generation is approaching work differently.
The conversations point to a broader shift: as AI takes on more of the repetitive work and makes production cheaper, human judgment, creativity, curiosity, taste, intention, and the ability to identify the right problems become more important.
Featured Guests
- Kourtney Cross, Business Analyst at Leidos and ServiceNow Rise Up graduate. Listen to the full conversation here: [https://www.buzzsprout.com/520474/episodes/18741521]
- Andrea Iorio, Keynote Speaker and Author of Between You and AI, formerly Chief Digital Officer at L'Oreal Brazil. Listen to the full conversation here: [https://www.buzzsprout.com/520474/episodes/18662632]
- Jake Saper, General Partner at Emergence Capital. Listen to the full conversation here: [https://www.buzzsprout.com/520474/episodes/18982636]
- Matt Britton, CEO of Suzy and Author of Generation AI. Listen to the full conversation here: [https://www.buzzsprout.com/520474/episodes/18792172]
What You'll Learn
- How an analyst early in his career built AI into his daily work, and why he went looking for it before anyone handed it to him
- What it takes to make your work visible when you are just starting out
- How reverse mentoring puts the newest employees in the room to teach the leadership team what it is missing
- What a workday looks like once these tools handle the repetitive parts, and how to reinvest the time that comes back
- Why AI can democratize creation while making taste, intention, trust, curation, and point of view more valuable
- Why "which tool should I use" is the least interesting question, and what rises in value once memorizing information stops being the point
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Other special episodes:
- SE 19: AI and Education: How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Learning (International Day of Education Special Episode)
- Lessons from Four Unicorn CEOs Disrupting Massive Markets with AI (Special Episode)
- Artificial General Intelligence: Can Machines Really Think Like Us? (Special Episode)
- Ethical AI in Hiring: How to Stay Compliant While Building a Fairer Future of Work (HR Day Special Episode)
- AI and the Law: How AI Will Change Legal Careers (Special Episode)
- AI and Safety: How Responsible Tech Leaders Build Trustworthy Systems (National Safety Month Special)
- Lessons from Leaders: How AI Is Redefining Work and the Human Experience (Labor Day Special Episode)
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