Podcasts about guardrails

Divorcing Christian? Chances are you—or someone you're close to—has dealt with the pain of divorce. In today's interview clip, Jim Ramos is joined by Dale Brown to walk you through 4 critical steps for healing from divorce. Here's the link to Dale Brown's book, 'Daily Survival Guide for Divorced Men: Surviving & Thriving Beyond Your Divorce Days 1-91' (https://tinyurl.com/divorce115) If you want the full interview, you can listen to it here! Want to protect your marriage? Get our free ebook: 7 Guardrails to Protect Your Marriage Before It's Too Late. https://meninthearena.org/pages/7-marriage-guardrails  Has Men in the Arena helped you make a change in your life, small or large? We want to hear your impact story! You can start a ministry to father the fatherless in your church! Learn how with our sponsor, Kids Outdoor Zone at https://kidsoutdoorzone.com/arena.

It's (RE)quipping Wednesday! This is a reboot of a past Equipping Men in Ten episode, EP #591 Christian man, are you TIRED? Are you stressed? We don't call that 20-year period where you're raising your family The Stress Bubble for nothing.  In this week's 10-minute (RE)quipping episode, Jim Ramos walks you through a time when Jesus was tired and what He did. He outlines three ways that you can show up like Jesus. Want to protect your marriage? Get our free ebook: 7 Guardrails to Protect Your Marriage Before It's Too Late. https://meninthearena.org/pages/7-marriage-guardrails  Has Men in the Arena helped you make a change in your life, small or large? We want to hear your impact story! You can start a ministry to father the fatherless in your church! Learn how with our sponsor, Kids Outdoor Zone at https://kidsoutdoorzone.com/arena.  

In this episode: The story behind loomAI and what "getting agents into production one decision at a time" really means Why the race for AI value is colliding with rising token costs and energy limits, and how automating a bad process just gets you bad results faster Where Salesforce fits in a consumption-priced, agentic world, and why the trust layer and configuration still matter The governance problem every CIO is waking up to as agents multiply across the org The data vocabulary shift: why yesterday's clean data is often today's dead data What the consulting firm of the future looks like, from the 1,200 decisions a business makes each day to a learning organization that contracts on outcomes Drawing the line in regulated industries: human-in-the-loop, and why background agents beat customer-facing ones for now Why human connection becomes more valuable, not less, as everyone races to automate Timestamp guide: [00:00] — Intro and what's ahead [00:48] — Erin and Eric catch up, and set up the loomAI founders [03:05] — Meet Tricia Napper and David Bauer, and the loomAI origin story [03:56] — The elevator pitch: agents into production, one decision at a time [04:31] — Building an AI-native company, and the learning curve of starting up [06:50] — The AI backlash: ROI pressure, the cost pendulum, and turning off the models [07:34] — The race for value, and automation vs. reimagination [10:24] — Where Salesforce fits: trust layer, configuration, and consumption pricing [14:10] — Buy vs. build, and the CIO fear of agent proliferation [15:36] — Governance, and the case for a third party managing the guardrails [16:31] — When you don't need another tool: starting with the problem, not the tech [18:39] — The data vocabulary shift and the problem of dead data [21:08] — Who drives AI now, business or IT [24:29] — The consulting firm of the future and the 1,200-decisions-a-day business [26:48] — The learning organization vs. the all-knowing expert, and contracting on outcomes [29:35] — Guardrails in regulated industries and keeping humans in the loop [32:05] — Keeping the human in front of the customer, and the AI slop problem [34:08] — Customer Obsessed picks [37:28] — Erin and Eric debrief: business process, alignment, and keeping people front and center [39:56] — How AI changes the C-suite, and freeing people from the busy work [42:01] — The IKEA story: automating service calls and building a new business line [43:24] — Finding the customers who need a human, and where brands fall short [46:55] — Why great ideas need space, trust, and culture over surveillance Customer Obsessed Picks: Tricia Napper: The Red Tent by Anita Diamant, and How to Know a Person by David Brooks David Bauer: Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver

In This Episode: Social rage on Flock cameras. Fake worry about technology. And the Rise of School Security Drones. This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 0:00 GR: Baseball with ipads. https://apnews.com/article/mlb-ai-ipads-ac940e2490557438f440514977832a74  5:30 Ai is not smarter. People have been doing this all along. 12:56 GR: City and counties are putting up cameras to record everything.  https://www.404media.co/the-rise-of-anti-flock-influencers-who-make-things-up-for-clout/  23:00 LN: The OpenAI “breakout” – https://apnews.com/article/openai-hugging-face-hacking-ai-model-708cb598bc1e33cef560e7196adb2afa  Did OpenAI's New Model “Go Rogue”?  Imagine if your AI could not only search the public internet, but also use stolen credentials to sign-in to private networks. That's kind of what this is. It's messy. Guardrails were apparently not at 100% Is it mimicking humans? Humans willing to use compromised credentials, that is. Concern, OF COURSE, is that today it's data retrieval from a competitor, but it could someday be data poisoning, or worse. 34:00 GR: Drones to be used to try to stop school shootings: https://www.edweek.org/leadership/drones-to-stop-school-shootings-promising-tool-or-unproven-strategy/2026/05  Will they really be effective?  What are the costs? Budget vs just guards and more traditional methods. Budget vs spending money on actual education. 38:00 What about pepper balls? 39:00 Hacked pepper balls? 42:00 GR: Apple sued because of a third-party app. Is the only legal option for Apple to be 100% perfect when it comes to app store security? https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/apple-sued-after-alleged-app-store-crypto-scam-cost-users-1-8m/ Ain’t it Cool 47:00 LN: Furious. (Hulu) – Dark police murder mystery series staring Emily Rossum (Shameless) 48:00 GR: Exit Strategy by Martha Wells (Murderbot diaries series) BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 49:00 LN: How Do I Find Good Local Computer Help? – askleo.com/25661 50:00 GR: How To Protect Yourself Against ClickFix Scams Transcript teh273 Video https://youtu.be/e6gikp0TX-U  

A single customer request can now generate 10,000 fake documents in under five minutes - and that's just one signal of how fast AI is reshaping trust across cybersecurity, identity, and engineering. In this episode of 10X Growth Strategies, host Preethy Padmanabhan talks to Purvi Desai (VP Engineering, Zscaler) and Raul Liive (Product Director, Marketplaces, Veriff) about what it actually takes to build - and defend - AI systems that enterprises can trust. In this episode, we discuss: Why has the question shifted from "can AI do this?" to "can AI do this predictably, accurately, and with the right governance?" How AI has scaled document fraud from a manual editing job into a mass-produced, minutes-long process Why identity verification now has to answer not just "who are you" but "are you still you tomorrow, with good intent?" The move from AI-as-copilot to full agentic engineering, spec-driven development, and multi-agent workflows Why unscoped agentic commands and LLM context limits create new engineering risk What trustworthy AI actually requires: accuracy, predictability, traceability, and data segregation The role of offline and live evals, judges, and adversarial testing in validating AI output How enterprises are evaluating AI vendors on leading-edge capability, compliance, and ease of integration Why trust, not just capability, is becoming the hardest problem to solve for AI-driven companies The real story behind "15x productivity" claims and how gains actually compound over time Whether you're a founder, an engineering leader, or someone trying to understand where AI, identity, and cybersecurity intersect - this conversation is for you. 10X Growth Strategies is a community founded by Preethy Padmanabhan, started as a podcast five years ago and now grown into a community of over 7,500 founders, investors, and executives across Luma and LinkedIn. The community hosts monthly events on timely topics in tech, AI, and entrepreneurship. #cybersecurity #AItrust #AIsecurity #identityverification #enterpriseAI #AIagents #deepfake #zerotrust #growthstrategies #10xgrowth Chapters: 00:00:06 - 00:01:14 - Meet the Speakers: Purvi Desai (Zscaler) 00:01:15 - 00:01:40 - Meet the Speakers: Raul Liive (Veriff) 00:01:42 - 00:02:56 - How AI Has Changed Customer Trust 00:02:57 - 00:04:13 - The Rise of AI-Generated Fake Documents 00:04:14 - 00:07:18 - AI's Impact on Engineering Workflows 00:07:19 - 00:09:09 - Identity Verification in the Age of AI Agents 00:09:10 - 00:12:17 - What Trustworthy AI Looks Like (Evals, Guardrails, Compliance) 00:12:18 - 00:12:53 - New Opportunities for Startups 00:12:54 - 00:16:31 - Inside Veriff: Securing Identity Without Compromising Trust 00:16:36 - 00:18:38 - Audience Q&A: Evaluating AI Vendors 00:18:40 - 00:20:29 - Why Trust Is the #1 Vendor Selection Criteria 00:20:30 - 00:22:43 - Audience Q&A: Productivity Gains & Validating AI Output

In this 30-min message, Jim Ramos teaches you what "No Pain, No Gain" means for the Christian man. This is a reboot of a message from The MAG, The McMinnville Area Gathering for men in McMinnville, Oregon. Want to protect your marriage? Get our free ebook: 7 Guardrails to Protect Your Marriage Before It's Too Late. https://meninthearena.org/pages/7-marriage-guardrails  Has Men in the Arena helped you make a change in your life, small or large? We want to hear your impact story! https://meninthearena.org/pages/hero-stories  You can start a ministry to father the fatherless in your church! Learn how with our sponsor, Kids Outdoor Zone at https://kidsoutdoorzone.com/arena.

Many parents are told to “just deschool and do nothing” after pulling their kids out of traditional school—but with middle school and high schoolers, that advice often backfires.In this conversation with former middle school teacher turned homeschooling mom Janae Daniels, host of the School to Homeschool podcast, we talk about why older kids struggle most with doing “nothing” and why their brains crave structure after years in the system. Janae shares how her family—and the families she coaches—use simple academic guardrails in reading, writing, and math as a bridge into homeschooling.You'll hear why teens often say “I don't want to do anything… but I need to do something,” and how moving toward an eclectic unschooler approach can honor both their need for routine and their growing independence. We explore what eclectic unschooling looks like in real life: mixing a few structured subjects with child-led learning, embracing boredom as a spark for curiosity, and using tools like strewing and a rich home environment as “teachers.”If you're pulling an older child out of school—or considering it—this episode will help you decide which subjects need guardrails, what can truly wait, and how to transition toward a more eclectic, interest-driven homeschool without losing your teen in the process.If this episode of The Brainy Moms Podcast with Dr. Amy Moore and Sandy Zamalis helps, subscribe, share it with a friend who's considering homeschooling a teen, and leave a quick review so more parents can find us. What's the biggest fear or hope you have about homeschooling a teen?ABOUT US:The Brainy Moms is a parenting podcast hosted by cognitive psychologist Dr. Amy Moore and Sandy Zamalis. Dr. Amy and Sandy have conversations with experts in parenting, child development, education, homeschooling, psychology, mental health, and neuroscience. Listeners leave with tips and advice for helping parents and kids thrive. If you love us, add us to your playlist and follow us on social media! CONNECT WITH US:Website: www.TheBrainyMoms.com Email: BrainyMoms@gmail.com Social Media: @TheBrainyMomsSubscribe to our free monthly newsletterVisit our sponsor's website: www.LearningRx.com

Marty and John dig into the Houthis blocking the Bab el Mandeb strait, oil whipsawing on peace headlines, and why Lloyd's of London pulling war coverage matters for US insurers. They get into Trump's air defense stockpile problem, Chinese diesel demand falling off a cliff, and why the MOVE index staying subdued even as yields rise is the chart to watch. The bulk of the show is an extended breakdown of the open versus closed AI model debate, why the Hugging Face hack exposes the absurdity of current guardrails, and how the real axis of conflict is US versus China, not open source versus safety. They close with Bitcoin long term holder supply hitting 84 percent, a classic bottoming signal.

This is a sneak peek from the members-only edition of Inside Call Me Back. Dan answers listener questions about what the New York City Democratic primary means for Jewish voters, how they should respond to Mamdani's open hostility, whether Israel should ever reconsider its alliance with the United States and look to China, and why he believes America's partnership remains indispensable despite growing political uncertainty. ___ Call Me Back is made possible by our subscribers. If these conversations are where you turn to understand Israel and the Jewish world, consider joining them. It's what keeps this show going. For the full episode, subscribe here to - Inside Call me Back ____ You can access the full episode here, where Dan answers listener questions about: - Rahm Emanuel's vision for the Middle East - Will politics change Trump's Iran strategy? - Changing career path to the Jewish nonprofit world - Why don't some Orthodox Jews sing Hatikvah? - Could the Middle East have its own NATO? - Will there ever be an Inside Call Me Back trip to Israel? More Ark Media: Want to join Ark Media? Check out our careers page for new openings. Explore Israel Votes Listen to Ark News Daily Listen to For Heaven's Sake Listen to What's Your Number? Newsletters | Ark Media | Amit Segal | Nadav Eyal Instagram | Ark Media | Dan X | Dan Dan Senor & Saul Singer's book, The Genius of Israel Get in touch Credits: Ilan Benatar, Beth Pearlman, Brittany Cohen, Ava Weiner, Martin Huergo, Mariangeles Burgos, and Yuval Semo

Octopus Energy paid its UK customers collectively over £100,000 during a recent heat wave, not through new infrastructure, but a text message and a price signal offering demand flexibility. That caught our attention.In this episode, Ed and Sara (David sits this one out) talk with Eric Davids, Head of Strategy for Octopus Energy's US business, about redefining utility-customer relationships, how approaches in the UK stack up against North American utilities' much blunter "please conserve" grid alerts, and what happens when consumers get real price exposure and it doesn't go well.

As AI and software become embedded in more medical technologies, companies must balance the pressure to innovate quickly with the responsibility to protect patients. In this episode, Suzanne Levy Friedman, Partner at Honigman, discusses how medical device and digital health companies can navigate evolving FDA regulations and bring products to market more efficiently. She explains how regulatory counsel helps organizations determine whether products fall under FDA oversight, distinguish wellness technologies from regulated devices, and build effective commercialization strategies. Suzanne also explores the growing tension between rapid innovation, particularly in AI, and the FDA's responsibility to protect public health. Finally, she shares how clearer regulatory guidance and early legal involvement can help manufacturers avoid costly setbacks and better operationalize compliance. Tune in to learn how early regulatory planning can help medtech companies innovate responsibly, reduce risk, and bring valuable technologies to patients more efficiently! Resources: Connect with and follow Suzanne Levy Friedman on LinkedIn. Follow Honigman on LinkedIn and explore their website. Contact Suzanne at sfriedman@honigman.com.

Code review has always been a time sink. AI just makes the dysfunction undeniable.Luca Rossi, founder of Refactoring.fm and builder of the open source tool Tolaria, has been running one of engineering's most-read newsletters for five years, with over 170,000 subscribers. He's also been doing what a lot of engineering leaders talk about but rarely do: building a real product with AI agents to pressure-test what's actually possible today.In this conversation, Rob and Luca dig into the state of AI adoption at the midpoint of 2026; what high-performing teams are getting right, why most orgs are still just bolting AI onto a broken process, and why code review was already a questionable practice before AI came along. Luca also walks through the "guides, gates, and guards" framework he uses to keep AI agents productive and honest on Tolaria: the instructions that steer agent behavior, the deterministic hooks that catch what agents ignore, and the nightly reflection loops that catch the rest.Luca is the founder of Refactoring.fm, a newsletter and community covering software engineering and engineering leadership. He spent a decade as a CTO and startup founder before going independent, and now builds in public as both a writer and a solo product builder.In this episode:Why adopting AI without fixing your process just means moving faster in the wrong directionWhat the most mature engineering teams are doing differently in 2026The guides, gates, and guards framework for AI-assisted developmentWhy Luca has been a code review skeptic since before the AI eraHow building Tolaria became a way to get ground truth about what AI agents can actually doThe unexpected differences between running a startup and running an independent content businessSubscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

It's (RE)quipping Wednesday! This is a reboot of a past Equipping Men in Ten episode, EP #656 Is your young adult child rebelling, or threatening to leave the faith altogether? Even kids raised in a solid Christian homes can end up doing stupid stuff that doesn't match Christian values. In this week's 10-minute (RE)quipping episode, Jim Ramos gives you 7 steps you can take to love your child back into a relationship with God. Want to protect your marriage? Get our free ebook: 7 Guardrails to Protect Your Marriage Before It's Too Late. https://meninthearena.org/pages/7-marriage-guardrails  Has Men in the Arena helped you make a change in your life, small or large? We want to hear your impact story! You can start a ministry to father the fatherless in your church! Learn how with our sponsor, Kids Outdoor Zone at https://kidsoutdoorzone.com/arena.  

Host Mike Palmer connects with Monica Marquez, founder of ⁠FlipWork⁠ and founding director of the ⁠TIDE Center at UNT Dallas⁠, to explore how humans can navigate the rapid disruption of AI in the workplace. Drawing from her deep background in human capital, diversity, and leadership development at industry giants like Goldman Sachs, Google, and Bank of America, Monica brings a deeply human-centered approach to the AI revolution.  Mike and Monica skip the standard AI hype to discuss why simply rolling out AI tools isn't enough to drive real adoption. They dive into the psychology of AI integration, unpacking what Monica calls the "identity bottleneck" - the challenge workers face when shifting from a traditional mindset where "effort equals success" to a modern reality where "impact equals success." Monica also introduces her "long division" analogy for AI, explaining why we shouldn't ban the tool in classrooms or boardrooms, but instead require users to show their work and actively interrogate the AI's logic.  Key Discussion Topics:  * The Identity Bottleneck: Why our traditional conditioning to reward "grit and elbow grease" is causing resistance to AI's effortless outputs, and how to overcome the feeling of "cheating."  * Measuring AI Fluency: A look at FlipWork's psychometric diagnostic, which assesses "agentic velocity" (individual adoption) and "enterprise symbiosis" (organizational support).  * The Calculator Analogy: How educators and leaders can demand the "long division" of AI prompting to combat passive consumption ("work slop") and prevent cognitive atrophy.  * Agentic Teams: Why AI isn't a one-size-fits-all solution and how to orchestrate specialized models (like Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini) just like human team members.  * Democratizing Expertise: How everyday users can use AI as an accessible thinking partner to overcome biases, expand diversity of thought, and level the playing field.  Whether you're an educator, an enterprise leader, or an individual trying to disrupt yourself before you get disrupted, this episode offers a practical blueprint for multiplying human genius in the AI age. Subscribe to Trending in Education on your preferred podcast platform, leave a review, and share this episode with your network. Visit ⁠TrendinginEd.com⁠ for more episodes and conversations on the future of learning and work. Timestamps: 00:00 Welcome and Guest Intro 01:05 Monica's Career Journey 03:57 Why FlipWork and AI 07:41 Enterprise Adoption Reality 13:45 Measuring AI Fluency 17:13 Identity Bottleneck Shift 21:56 Teaching Critical Thinking 26:08 Bias Trust and Agency 30:31 Guardrails and AI Teams 33:41 Final Takeaways

Do you struggle to say YES to the things God places on your heart? It's a struggle for many of us, including Jonah in the Bible. Today, Pastor Jim Ramos teaches from the story of Jonah and the power of saying YES to God's will and the dangers of saying NO. This message is from The MAG, The McMinnville Area Gathering for men in McMinnville, Oregon. Want to protect your marriage? Get our free ebook: 7 Guardrails to Protect Your Marriage Before It's Too Late. https://meninthearena.org/pages/7-marriage-guardrails  Has Men in the Arena helped you make a change in your life, small or large? We want to hear your impact story! https://meninthearena.org/pages/hero-stories  You can start a ministry to father the fatherless in your church! Learn how with our sponsor, Kids Outdoor Zone at https://kidsoutdoorzone.com/arena.  

Are AI agents ready for banking and financial services? Former UBS Group CIO Oliver Bussmann explains the risks to trust and reputation in banking.This session examines the current adoption landscape of AI agents within the financial sector. With roughly 50% of financial institutions now integrating these tools into their workflows, understanding the operational implications is critical for industry leaders and tech professionals alike.Bussmann breaks down why financial AI requires a balanced approach. You will learn how firms are navigating the tension between rapid innovation and the need to maintain client trust as they deploy AI agents at scale.Whether you are managing banking technology or assessing the impact of financial AI, this overview provides context on the real-world challenges facing major institutions today. The discussion highlights the specific reputational hazards that arise when automating sensitive financial processes.YOU'LL DISCOVER✅ How copilot use is shifting toward autopilot across back office, IT, and marketing functions✅ What has to be in place before an agent gets write access to a core ledger: testing, traceability, audit logs, and rollback✅ Why Bussmann expects audit agents to move into the second and third lines of defense, with PwC and Deloitte already bringing their own✅ How the risk classification of a use case drives the level of cross-model validation, human verification, and cross-checks✅ Trust is the asset a bank cannot lose, and Bussmann is waiting for an industry incident driven by hallucination✅ Why junior software engineer job advertisements are down about 40%, and why you cannot stop hiring juniors you will need as seniors in three to five years✅ Coding is not the bottleneck; the organizational change required for process redesign is the real constraint✅ Bussmann is optimistic that agents will run across bank functions within a year, with gains of one, two, or three times in certain use cases against the copilot era's 10 to 30%⏱️ TIMESTAMPS0:00 Introduction0:22 The technology works, the controls lag6:22 Guardrails first, then measure the gains9:38 How regulation shapes what agents may do17:15 Machine learning and high-risk decisions20:14 Trust is what a bank cannot lose25:19 Agents are reshaping technology careers34:26 Risk classification sets the autonomy line39:29 Customer agents need verified digital identity45:12 Proving control to regulators and boards48:23 AI native banks still need people51:41 Agents in production within a yearSubscribe for weekly conversations with leading business and technology leaders.Get the CXOTalk newsletter: https://newsletter.cxotalk.comShow notes, transcript, and summary: https://www.cxotalk.com/episode/agentic-ai-in-financial-services-former-ubs-and-sap-group-cioEpisode 925 | Recorded July 17, 2026#CXOTalk #AgenticAI #AIinBanking #FinancialServices #AIGovernance #EnterpriseAI #AIAgents #RiskManagement

Artificial intelligence is advancing at an incredible pace, but without an AI Governance Framework, organizations risk creating systems that are difficult to trust, maintain, or scale. Many people assume that governance slows innovation, but in reality, the opposite is often true. The right guardrails allow teams to move faster by reducing uncertainty and preventing costly mistakes before they happen. In Part 1 of our conversation with Dr. Latha Karthigaa, Co-Founder of the Global AI Certification Council (GAICC), we explored why AI governance is becoming a business necessity and why developers should view it as an enabler rather than a barrier. About Latha Karthigaa Dr. Latha Karthigaa is the Director & Head of AI Governance of the Global AI Certification Council (GAICC), where she helps organizations implement responsible AI through governance frameworks, certifications, and AI management systems. With a PhD in Software Engineering and experience in education, digital marketing, and AI strategy, she focuses on helping professionals and enterprises adopt AI responsibly. Learn more: GAICC: https://gaicc.org LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lathakarthigaa/ AI Governance Framework Is Like Guardrails on a Highway One of the best analogies from the discussion compared AI governance to the guardrails along a highway. Drivers can safely travel at higher speeds because guardrails help keep them on course. Remove those barriers, and everyone naturally slows down because the consequences of a mistake become much greater. AI works the same way. Governance isn't about preventing innovation. It's about creating confidence that allows organizations to innovate responsibly. When developers know the boundaries, they spend less time reacting to unexpected issues such as biased outputs, hallucinations, data misuse, or compliance failures.

In this episode of the Crazy Wisdom Podcast, host Stewart Alsop speaks with Aaron Neyer, founder of Parachute and community organizer in Boulder, about knowledge management, extended minds, and the intersection of AI with human consciousness. They explore how Parachute functions as a digital brain tool for organizing thoughts and information across fragmented systems, discuss the dangers of AI psychosis and over-reliance on technology, and debate open source AI development versus controlled releases by companies like Anthropic. The conversation weaves through topics including the limitations of metrics-driven business thinking, consciousness and relevance realization, the value of technological sabbaths, and Aaron's hope for locally-run open source models that protect personal data while still accessing more powerful gated models when needed. You can find Aaron's writing at unforced.org and unforced.substack.com, and learn more about Parachute at parachute.computer and parachute.computer/blog.Timestamps00:00 Stewart welcomes Aaron Neyer, founder of Parachute and Boulder community organizer, discussing the origin of Parachute's name from Frank Zappa's quote about open minds.05:00 Aaron explains Parachute as an extended mind tool for organizing notes, contacts and information across multiple platforms, emphasizing the distinction between primary mind and extended mind as interconnected systems.10:00 Discussion shifts to metrics-driven business culture and the limitations of pure rationality, exploring how Google's data-driven approach misses subjective experience and the whole picture of relationships.15:00 Aaron discusses AI's ability to help identify relevant variables across different domains and the dangers of AI psychosis, comparing it to cult dynamics and belief systems.20:00 The conversation covers AI sabbaths and nineties retreats as intentional breaks from technology, plus Aaron's experiences with electrical engineering and using AI to design circuits with Arduinos.25:00 Exploring forbidden knowledge and open source AI, Aaron discusses Anthropic's guardrails around powerful models while arguing for distributed access to prevent concentration of power.30:00 Deep dive into open source AI strategy, with Aaron highlighting NVIDIA's approach and the potential for running capable models locally while reserving ultra-intelligent models for complex research tasks.35:00 Aaron shares his vision for local Sonnet-class models handling personal data while accessing Fable-class models for deep research, and directs listeners to unforced.org and parachute.computer for his writing.Key Insights1. The philosophy behind Parachute stems from Frank Zappa's quote that the mind is like a parachute and doesn't work if it isn't open. Aaron Neyer explains that having an open mind is valuable, but it must be balanced with deep roots to avoid becoming untethered. He has experienced periods in his life where excessive openness led him to feel disconnected, teaching him that creativity and expansion need to be grounded in something substantial. This same principle applies to how we organize information digitally, where openness and interoperability allow our extended minds to become more connected and coherent, which in turn helps our primary minds think more clearly.2. Parachute is designed as an extended mind tool that addresses the fragmentation problem in how we currently manage information. Most people use multiple disconnected tools like Obsidian, Notion, Apple Notes, Google Keep, and various CRMs to organize their thoughts, notes, and relationships. These systems don't communicate well with each other, creating inefficiency and confusion. Parachute aims to create a simple, intuitive system where all this information can be organized in one place with true interoperability, allowing users to own their data and have it speak effectively with other tools, ultimately making our entire extended mind more functional.3. Understanding ourselves as unified body mind organisms rather than fragmented parts is essential for effectiveness. Living systems theory shows that any living system is three things: a membrane bound dissipative structure, a self regulating autopoietic network, and a cognitive process actively knowing the world. Western civilization since Descartes and Galileo has created artificial separation between body and mind, and between subjective and objective experience, which limits our effectiveness. The same fragmentation affects our digital technology, and recognizing both our biological and digital systems as coherent wholes rather than disconnected parts makes us vastly more capable.4. The relationship between data driven approaches and holistic thinking reveals important limitations in modern business and science. While working at Google, Aaron observed how data driven decision making can be powerful, but over reliance on metrics like ROI creates blindness to crucial unmeasurable factors like goodwill and relationship quality. This reflects a broader Western tendency to exclude subjective experience because it's difficult for objective science to measure. However, emotions, relationships, and other subjective elements are essential parts of reality, and focusing only on quantifiable metrics means missing the whole picture and ultimately becoming less effective despite appearing more rational.5. AI accelerates the ability to work with technical complexity by helping with relevance realization across domains where we lack expertise. In any specialized field, experts develop intuitive senses for which variables matter and can quickly identify problems, whether in computer troubleshooting, music, or cooking. AI's ability to generalize allows it to point people toward relevant solutions in areas where they haven't developed that intuitive expertise, effectively democratizing technical capability. This means people can direct their creativity more effectively across more domains, though it also raises concerns about giving powerful capabilities to those who may lack the wisdom to use them responsibly.6. The question of open source AI versus gated access involves complex tradeoffs between democratizing power and preventing harm. Aaron respects Anthropic's approach of creating guardrails around powerful models like Mythos, which would likely have caused significant system hacks if released without restrictions. However, this creates concerning power dynamics where only wealthy companies, governments, and their allies have access to the most powerful tools. NVIDIA offers hope through their truly open source approach including full training pipelines, and there may be a viable path where open source models at the Sonnet capability level handle most tasks locally while more powerful Fable class models remain gated for the most demanding work.7. Creating intentional breaks from AI and technology is essential for maintaining clear independent thinking. Aaron practices an AI Sabbath at least one day per week when he doesn't interact with AI, and he finds these are the days when he does his best thinking and journaling. Without these breaks, he finds himself constantly jumping between journaling and prompting AI rather than giving himself space for deep reflection. This pattern mirrors broader concerns about AI consistency creating cult like dynamics similar to organized religion, where constant immersion in a belief system or technology can lead to losing the ability to think independently, making periodic disconnection crucial for maintaining cognitive autonomy and clarity.

Does restricting frontier AI in the name of safety actually make us less secure? Joshua Saxe joins me to make the case that it does, and that AI cybersecurity will be won through defender adoption, not restriction.Josh has spent 15 years at the intersection of AI and security. He built and ran the machine learning program at Sophos, then led security for Llama at Meta, covering security post training, evals, agent guardrails, and prompt injection prevention. He recently left to co-found a startup reimagining vulnerability and exposure management agentically. He also writes one of the most cited blogs on AI and cyber policy.In this episode:- Why restricting frontier model access harms defenders more than attackers- How monitored closed models put threat actors at a structural disadvantage- The jagged frontier, and why attackers don't need frontier models for most of their tradecraft- The national security and supply chain risks of pushing the world onto Chinese open weights models- Why exploits don't cause cyberattacks, and which attacker constituencies AI actually unblocks- The dual use ceiling on guardrails and classifiers- Where defenders should be adopting AI right now, from access management to SOC automation- Using agents to burn down the mountain of security technical debtChapters:0:00 Intro0:42 Josh's background, from blackhat teen to Llama security lead3:07 The case for diffusion over restriction6:14 Why restriction hurts defenders more than attackers10:19 The jagged frontier and what attackers actually use models for12:49 National security and the supply chain risk of Chinese open weights16:08 Exploits don't cause cyberattacks20:20 Where defenders should adopt AI right now24:20 Guardrails, classifiers, and the dual use problem27:34 Reimagining vulnerability management with agents32:17 The structural advantage defenders hold35:15 Policy wishes and the attacker's Claude Code momentFollow Josh:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-saxe-01845a1Substack: https://joshuasaxe181906.substack.comFollow Resilient Cyber:Substack: https://www.resilientcyber.ioSubscribe for more conversations with security practitioners and leaders.#aisecurity #cybersecurity #vulnerabilitymanagement #aipolicy #opensourceai

מה  מה קורה כשממשקי המשתמש המסורתיים, הכפתורים והצבעים מפנים את מקומם לחלון צ'אט אחד?השאלה שמטלטלת את עולם האפליקציות ופיתוח התוכנהבפרק הזה אירחתי את מור חננוביץ' לשיחה על אפליקציות אג'נטיות (Agentic Applications), עתיד הממשקים הגרפיים והארכיטקטורה הטכנית שמאחורי השינויים האלו בשטח.דיברנו על האפשרות שאפליקציות כפי שהכרנו אותן ילכו וייעלמו בשנים הקרובות, ואיך פרוטוקולים חדשים כמו MCP משנים את חוקי המשחק. נכנסנו לעומק הפרטים הטכניים – מאתגרי אבטחה ואותנטיקציה, דרך מנגנוני Guardrails ועד לניהול סיטואציות קיצון באונליין. לצד המורכבות הארכיטקטונית, שוחחנו על המשמעות של המהפכה הזו עבור מפתחי פרונטאנד, מעצבי UI/UX ומנהלי מוצר. במקום לשאול האם הממשק הגרפי ייעלם לחלוטין, השאלה היא איך מייצרים חוויה היברידית נכונה שמחברת בין עולם הצ'אט לצרכים של המשתמש.

Ralph welcomes back his old running mate, Native American activist, Winona LaDuke, who has devoted her life to advocating for Indigenous control of their homelands, natural resources, and cultural practices to talk about her latest incarnation: hemp farmer. Then, we'll speak to Hal Weitzman, from the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, about how Elon Musk's feud with Delaware may transform corporate America. Plus, we tick off Robert Reich's ten policy prescriptions the Democratic Party should fight for to beat the GOP in the upcoming midterms.Winona LaDuke is an activist, economist, and author, who has devoted her life to advocating for Indigenous control of their homelands, natural resources, and cultural practices. She is also a two-time vice-presidential candidate with Ralph Nader. Ms. LaDuke lives and works on the White Earth Ojibwe reservation in northern Minnesota, where she runs Winona's Hemp & Heritage Farm. She is also a member of the Indigenous Hemp & Cannabis Farmer's Cooperative.I'm looking first at seed sovereignty. We're growing [European hemp] varieties and then we're growing these feral hemp varieties. They're called feral varieties (which of course, that's something that I love) which means that when they eradicated hemp in the 1930s with the Marijuana Prohibition Act—well, they missed some spots. And those guys kept growing. And so 80 years of being illegal—isn't that great? Something that's illegal for 80 years is still with us, rocking out. And so I figure if you grew illegally for 80 years, you are really a tough hemp plant…And so we are growing out these hemp varieties and built a cooperative because we want to own the seeds and we want to own the technology (the value-added processing), and we want to use this hemp as a part of our future as tribes.Winona LaDukeMy grandsons are farming. I don't know who else can say their grandchildren are farming—let me know. My grandchildren are farming. They're running the horses. They're running the farms. You know, that's a retirement plan. My 401k will be worth nothing, but my grandchildren will feed me. This is my strategy.Winona LaDukeHal Weitzman is Executive Director for Intellectual Capital at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, editor-in-chief of Chicago Booth Review, and host of The Chicago Booth Review podcast. A former Financial Times editor and foreign correspondent, he is the author of Latin Lessons: How South America Stopped Listening to the United States and Started Prospering and What's the Matter with Delaware?: How the First State Has Favored the Rich, Powerful, and Criminal—and How It Costs Us All.There is a race to the bottom. There's been a race to the bottom for many decades. That's not new. I think it's accelerated somewhat. Delaware has joined that race from having been something of a “premium product” in terms of incorporating companies—Delaware has become a bit more “cut-price” I would say, and in that sense has followed Texas and Nevada. So the conclusion that we have a race to the bottom and it may be worse than Delaware—actually I think Delaware's already there. So it's not that it's getting worse outside of Delaware, it's getting worse including Delaware.Hal WeitzmanThe trend I think we're seeing is the exclusion of small shareholders completely—regardless of the status of your shares, this is about how big you are. And if you're a small shareholder there is no corporate democracy for you… It was practice in the past for activist groups, campaigning groups, to buy one share of a company and then to go to the shareholder meeting so they could make the point that they wanted to make. Now that kind of shareholder democracy is being encroached on. And the extent now is to say: unless you have a large position (regardless of the size of the company and the cost of the shares), you will not be allowed to bring suits against the executives for the correct running of the company.Hal WeitzmanNews 7/17/26* Our top story this week is New York Governor Kathy Hochul's decision to impose a one-year “pause” on the construction of AI data centers across the state. ABC7 reports that this is the first such moratorium in the nation, despite similar attempts in several states, most notably Maine where Governor Janet Mills vetoed a bill to this effect. Hochul argues that the pause is necessary so lawmakers and regulators can formulate “Guardrails to reduce the risk to our energy grid, minimize land disruption, noise pollution, and protect our natural resources, especially our water supply.” Hochul's move comes amidst a broader push against AI data centers from the left. Semafor reports Senator Bernie Sanders proposed a nationwide ban in March and many progressives running for state and local office in the midterms have made this a cornerstone of their campaigns. According to this piece, “In February, polling from Marquette Law School found 70% of all Wisconsinites agreeing that ‘the costs of the data centers outweigh the benefits.' Among Democrats, the number was 85%.”* Another progressive Member of Congress quite literally stepped into another hot-button political issue this week. While visiting a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank Wednesday, Al Jazeera reports armed settlers stopped the van of Representative Ro Khanna and were “later joined by Israeli soldiers who continued to block the road.” In a video, Khanna points out, settlers can be seen “brandishing M4s [rifles], kicking the tyres of our van, laughing at us, mocking at us, videotaping us.” This continued for over an hour and was only resolved when he reached out to the American Embassy, according to Khanna. Israel has responded to this fiasco by blaming Khanna, accusing the congressman of failing to coordinate his trip with the Israeli government; Khanna retorted that “The [Israeli military] is lying” and called for the arrest of the violent settlers. Conservative political commentator Tucker Carlson excoriated U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, writing “An American member of congress is threatened by foreign terrorists carrying American rifles, backed by a foreign military paid for by American taxpayers, and the US ambassador to that country says not a word in defense of his own countryman…It's too much, too insulting and humiliating to America.”* Following his return from occupied Palestine, Khanna again teamed up with Republican Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky to sponsor an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which would have removed the “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative” from the must-pass legislation. Responsible Statecraft describes the initiative as “an unprecedented integration of the U.S. and Israeli military industrial complexes,” by creating “an executive agent within the Department of Defense whose sole responsibility is furthering U.S. and Israeli military tech integration across nearly every facet of the defense process.” This article also notes that “Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has described this shift in the U.S.-Israel relationship as ‘my plan.'” However, House leadership is not backing this commonsense, bipartisan amendment. In a letter, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said he would vote against the amendment, calling it “overly broad” and claiming the amendment would “restrict our country's ability to confront Hamas, Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations in the region who are sworn enemies of both the United States and Israel,” per the Times of Israel. However, Jeffries pledged not to whip votes against the amendment and indeed the House Minority Whip, Congresswoman Katherine Clark, voted for the amendment as did Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, despite the opposition of Jeffries and House Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar. The Congressional Progressive Caucus reportedly whipped votes in favor of the amendment.* In more Israel-related news, this week Marco Rubio – who serves as Secretary of State as well as the acting National Security Advisor – announced that the State Department will launch a “sweeping campaign to dismantle…the International Criminal Court.” CNN observes that “The administration's ire against the ICC goes back to President Donald Trump's first term, when it targeted the ICC for seeking to investigate alleged war crimes committed by US forces in Afghanistan,” and that since taking office for the second time, the Trump administration has “imposed a slew of sanctions against ICC officials for their attempts to investigate the US and Israel.” CNN also quotes a State Department official who said that top officials, including Secretary Rubio and US ambassadors, “are calling countries as part of a campaign to diplomatically isolate the International Criminal Court.” It is worth noting that “all American presidents since the ICC's ratification have maintained that the ICC does not have jurisdiction over Americans,” and that Congress even passed a law calling for an invasion and occupation of the Hague if any American serviceman was ever prosecuted by the ICC, implying that this crackdown on the court is not about American sovereignty at all but rather the prosecution of Israeli officials for their war crimes in Gaza.* In another stunning story starring Marco Rubio, the New York Times reports the Secretary of State is functionally “running Venezuela from afar.” The Times story characterizes Rubio's position as the “de facto viceroy of Venezuela,” effectively controlling the country's “finances, the distribution of its natural resources and its government.” This story makes clear that while Delcy Rodríguez, the former Vice President of Venezuela under Nicolás Maduro, nominally occupies the presidency, Rubio is the one really calling the shots, with Rubio setting the conditions on what Venezuela's export revenue “can be spent on, and by whom,” and having the authority to approve or deny key governmental appointments in the country, such as the minister of defense. In short, the United States has established a shocking explicitly neo-colonial regime in the country, fulfilling the gravest prognostications of anti-imperialist critics of American intervention in the Bolivarian Republic.* Closer to home, Bloomberg reports the federal government has officially launched a grand jury investigation into the United Auto Workers and the union's outspoken president, Shawn Fain. The investigation stems from accusations made by the union's Vice President, Rich Boyer, who alleged that Fain used his position to secure benefits for his fiancée and her sister – and when Boyer refused to approve the benefits, Fain retaliated by stripping Boyer of his duties as chief negotiator with Stellantis NV. Fain has called the allegations “false” and is accusing Boyer of seeking to influence the upcoming UAW leadership election. Fain also claims that Boyer is the one retaliating after Fain “refused the vice president's request to hire family members to positions in the union.” Fain has long maintained that the Justice Department, and specifically the DOJ-appointed monitor, Neil Barofsky, has a political grudge against him because “the UAW took an anti-war stance about what was happening in Gaza.” According to Bloomberg, “Both Fain and Boyer have slates running and each is accusing the other of attempting to abuse their positions to benefit family.”* This week, another victim of harassment by the federal government, student activist Mahmoud Khalil, filed a landmark civil rights suit alleging that the government conspired with a number of private groups – including the Heritage Foundation, Betar, and Canary Mission – to “suppress criticism of Israel through a coordinated campaign to dox, jail and ultimately deport student activists.” According to the lawsuit, said activists were “nearly automatically targeted by the Federal Defendants for arrest and removal.” Khalil's lawyers argue that this “public-private partnership” could violate the “Ku Klux Klan Act, a Reconstruction-era law that sought to restrict government coordination with vigilante groups.” The suit is led by the Center for Constitutional Rights. The AP reports “Soon after his arrest, both Canary Mission and Betar boasted of their role in flagging Khalil's noncitizen status to the government.” Since Khalil's arrest, Betar has agreed to “dissolve its nonprofit status,” following a lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General Letitia James accusing Betar's members of harassing Palestinians.* Turning to the state level, this week 12 state attorneys general, led by California's Rob Bonta, filed an antitrust lawsuit seeking to block the acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Paramount Skydance, controlled by the Trump-aligned David Ellison. The proposed, $110 billion merger was approved by the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department last month, which reached the dubious conclusion that the merger is “not likely to result in harm to competition or American consumers.” In the filing, Bonta and the state AGs for Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, and Washington allege that the merger “would extinguish competition between Paramount and Warner Bros. and inflict substantial harm on movie theatres, basic cable distributors, and, ultimately, audiences nationwide.” This from Reason.* In the world of philanthropy, CNBC reports Warren Buffett, the billionaire chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, has “excluded the Gates Foundation from his sizable annual charitable donations.” As this report notes, the Gates Foundation has been among the top recipients of his annual Berkshire donations, totaling $47 billion worth of Berkshire stock since 2006. The reason for the exclusion of the Gates Foundation has been much speculated upon, in particular, whether it was due to the recent revelations about Gates' relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Asked about this, Buffett said that he had “read a great deal…in terms of what happened, with Bill and Epstein,” calling their relationship “distasteful,” but also saying that he “found nothing in there that was beyond what [he] could picture [himself] doing.” Instead of the Gates Foundation, all of this year's donations will go to foundations linked to the Buffett family.* Finally, British multinational diamond conglomerate De Beers, famous for coining the “A Diamond is Forever” tagline in 1947, reported this week that they plan to halt work at their “flagship” Venetia mine in South Africa as demand for the stones wanes. The BBC highlights both slackening consumer demand as well as competition from lab-grown diamonds, particularly those produced in China. That said, the closing of the Venetia mine – the biggest in South Africa, accounting for over 40% of the country's diamond production – will send shockwaves through that country's already shaky economy. That mine alone employs more than 4,000 people, while the mining sector employs nearly half a million. De Beers said they plan to reopen the mine in two years; in the meantime, they are looking to expand copper mining to keep up with demand from AI data centers.This has been Francesco DeSantis, with In Case You Haven't Heard. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe

Unleashed! The Political News Hour with Mayor Deb – When the Constitution was written in 1787, it created a stronger national government than what existed under the Articles of Confederation. However, many Americans worried that this new government could become too powerful and threaten individual liberty. Hence, our Founding Fathers embedded within the U.S. Constitution the...

Christian Johnson joins Jim Collison for Home Gadget Geeks 684 to talk about passkeys, Bitwarden, Vaultwarden, managed container hosting through Maple Grove Partners and the guardrails needed when AI agents begin doing real operational work.

https://youtu.be/jwa1SaBN5ZQ https://www.uncommen.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/July-18th.mp3 Stop Guessing There is a silent but devastating epidemic quietly wrecking the decision-making of Christian men, and it has nothing to do with a shortage of opportunities. If anything, men today are drowning in options — new jobs, new cities, new ventures, new relationships — and every single one arrives dressed up as a blessing. The real crisis is not a lack of open doors. The crisis is happening in the space between the offer and the answer, where fear, ambition, and exhaustion get mistaken for the voice of God. Men say the same thing to us over and over: "I don't know if this is God, or if it's just me wanting an easier life." That confusion is exactly why so many men never learn how to know God's will for your life — not because Scripture is silent, but because we keep looking for a business plan instead of a battle instruction. We have been sold a massive lie that discernment requires a burning bush or a total absence of risk. It doesn't. Learning how to know God's will for your life requires something far less mystical and far more disciplined: prayer, Scripture, wise counsel, and the willingness to walk through a door before you can see the whole hallway. This article is a practical guide to biblical discernment for men who are done guessing and ready for a real process. It will show you exactly how to test an opportunity, guard your family in the process, and stop confusing a paycheck for a calling. How to Know God's Will for Your Life Before You Chase the Check Every man reading this has felt the pull of a number. A bigger salary, a better title, a signing bonus that would finally let you breathe — these things are not evil, but they are incredibly persuasive liars when left unchecked. If you want to know how to know God's will for your life, this is where the test actually begins. The first and most brutal step is admitting that money is not a compass. Money can be a blessing that flows from obedience, but it was never designed to be the mechanism that tells you whether you're obedient in the first place. That is the whole point of learning how to know God's will for your life before the number ever gets involved. Scripture gives us a direct picture of this in Revelation 3:8, which states: "See, I have set before you an open door, and no one can shut it. I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name." Notice what qualifies the open door. It isn't a bank account. It is faithfulness — kept word, undenied name. An opportunity that pays well but demands you compromise that faithfulness is not an open door from God. It is a well-disguised trap. Before you evaluate what an offer will do for your bank account, evaluate what it will demand of your obedience. This is the first real test of how to know God's will for your life: what does the opportunity cost you spiritually, not just what does it pay you financially. That single shift in the order of your questions is biblical discernment for men in its simplest form — obedience first, outcome second. Fear Versus Faith: Confronting the Imposter in the Doorway The opposite danger is just as common and far less talked about: fear disguised as caution. A door opens, and instead of a paycheck problem, you have a confidence problem. You don't feel qualified. You don't have the resume, the degree, the track record, or the connections that "someone like that" is supposed to have. This is imposter syndrome, and it is one of the primary weapons the enemy uses to keep called men standing in the hallway instead of walking through the door. Here's the uncomfortable truth: God has never once been in the habit of calling qualified men. He calls willing ones and qualifies them on the way. Moses stuttered. Gideon hid in a winepress. Peter was a fisherman with a temper, not a theologian. If you are waiting to feel ready before you take the leap, you will wait forever, because readiness is manufactured in the walking, not before it. What you're really wrestling with is fear of stepping out in faith wearing the mask of caution, and it will always sound more reasonable than it actually is. Fear of stepping out in faith will always dress itself up as wisdom and humility. It will tell you that staying put is the responsible choice. Sometimes it is. But more often, it is simply fear wearing a suit, and fear is the loudest voice competing against how to know God's will for your life. Learn to name it out loud, because a fear you've named out loud has far less power over your decision than one you're still pretending isn't there. How to Know God's Will for Your Life When You Haven't Set Your Guardrails Yet Before any door opens, you need guardrails already in place — because you cannot build a fence while the bull is already running through the field. Pre-setting your boundaries means deciding, in advance and in the quiet, what you will never sacrifice for an opportunity: your marriage, your integrity, your presence with your kids, your Sunday mornings, your non-negotiables with God. If you wait until the offer is on the table to figure out your limits, the size of the number will always talk you out of them. This is a critical, often overlooked component of learning how to know God's will for your life. Discernment isn't just prayer in the moment of decision. It's the daily discipline of staying in the Word long before the decision ever arrives, so that when the test comes, you already know what you will and won't do. This is biblical discernment for men practiced as a daily posture, not a one-time prayer you say when the offer lands on the table. A man without pre-set boundaries is a man who negotiates his convictions in real time, under pressure, with a recruiter or a bank account watching. That is not a fair fight, and it is one you will lose more often than you think. Guardrails set months in advance are what make how to know God's will for your life a practical exercise instead of a philosophical one. The Whisper Versus the Shout: Why God Rarely Yells at You Men want black and white. We want God to come down, tap us on the shoulder, and say, "Yes, take the job," or, "No, don't move." That would be easier. But that is rarely how He operates, and expecting it is often what keeps men stuck in decision paralysis for months at a time. Scripture consistently shows God speaking through a whisper, not a shout — through peace, through His Word, through counsel, through circumstances that align rather than a voice audible in the room. If you are not spending regular time in Scripture and prayer, you cannot reasonably expect to recognize God's whisper when it comes. That's not a punishment; it's simply how relationship works. You don't recognize a stranger's voice in a crowd, but you instantly recognize your spouse's. This kind of biblical discernment for men is built in the quiet, ordinary weeks, not manufactured in a moment of crisis. The peace that surpasses understanding, described in Philippians 4:7, is not the absence of nerves — it is a settledness that remains even when the outcome is uncertain. That peace, cultivated over years of walking with God, is one of the clearest signals you'll ever get for how to know God's will for your life, and it cannot be manufactured overnight. Plans Versus Providence: When Your Timeline Isn't God's Timeline Some men fall into the opposite trap of the fearful man — they have the plan so locked in that they've stopped actually listening. Married by twenty-five, promoted by thirty, house with the white fence by thirty-five. There's nothing wrong with planning. But when the plan becomes the idol, God's actual will for your life gets treated like an inconvenience or a delay rather than the point. This is exactly where how to know God's will for your life gets confused with simply knowing your own preferences. Look at Joseph. He wasn't handed the palace. He was handed a pit, then a prison, then a palace — in that order, over the better part of two decades. If Joseph had judged God's will by how closely it matched his own five-year plan, he would have written off the entire story somewhere around chapter thirty-seven. Proverbs 3:5-6 puts it plainly: "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths." Straight paths are not always fast paths. Joseph's story is a masterclass in how to know God's will for your life even when the timeline makes absolutely no sense from where you're standing. A closed door is not evidence that God has abandoned the plan. Sometimes it's evidence that He's rewriting it into something better than the one you had drafted yourself. How to Know God's Will for Your Life Without Turning the Next Opportunity Into an Idol There is a particular kind of man who treats every new opportunity like the answer to a problem he hasn't actually named. He job-hops every few months chasing the next shiny title, the next slightly bigger number, the next taste of significance that always seems to be one door away. This is not discernment. This is an idol wearing the costume of ambition, and it will hollow you out while looking, from the outside, like progress. This chase has nothing to do with how to know God's will for your life and everything to do with restlessness wearing ambition's clothes. Learning how to know God's will for your life means learning to be content in the waiting just as much as you are decisive in the moving. If you are only ever looking for the next thing, you have stopped looking for God's will and started looking for an escape from wherever you currently are. Contentment while you wait is just as much a part of how to know God's will for your life as boldness is when you finally move....

Christian Johnson joins Jim Collison for Home Gadget Geeks 684 to talk about passkeys, Bitwarden, Vaultwarden, managed container hosting through Maple Grove Partners and the guardrails needed when AI agents begin doing real operational work.

Christian Johnson joins Jim Collison for Home Gadget Geeks 684 to talk about passkeys, Bitwarden, Vaultwarden, managed container hosting through Maple Grove Partners and the guardrails needed when AI agents begin doing real operational work.

We know that we're supposed to forgive, but what if someone has wronged you so deeply that you don't know where to start? In this week's interview, Dr. Bruce Hebel joined us to teach you how to forgive using his 7 Protocols of Forgiveness. You've heard it before: "Bitterness is the poison we drink hoping someone else dies." You've been drinking poison, brother, but this episode is your 7-step antidote. Check out https://tinyurl.com/forgiveness115 for more information!  Want to protect your marriage? Get our free ebook: 7 Guardrails to Protect Your Marriage Before It's Too Late. https://meninthearena.org/pages/7-marriage-guardrails  Has Men in the Arena helped you make a change in your life, small or large? We want to hear your impact story! https://meninthearena.org/pages/hero-stories  You can start a ministry to father the fatherless in your church! Learn how with our sponsor, Kids Outdoor Zone at https://kidsoutdoorzone.com/arena.  

“If you don't spend time writing your homily today and you just get up and give it, ask ChatGPT or Claude — they're gonna do a better job than you,” says Brendan McGuire. In the third episode of our series on Preaching for Missionary Discipleship, host Ricardo da Silva, S.J. welcomes Brendan McGuire, pastor of St. Simon Parish in Los Altos, California, and a former Silicon Valley technology executive who now advises the Vatican and Anthropic on AI ethics. A longtime teacher of homiletics, McGuire recently led formation sessions for Jesuit scholastics in Florence on using AI in homily prep — and brings that teaching here, making the case for a disciplined “deep prompt,” built from a preacher's own best homilies, over a “thin prompt” that produces something generic and derivative. Timecodes: 0:00 AI may prepare a better homily than you 2:29 Meet the Silicon Valley priest advising Anthropic and the Vatican 4:00 Recalling his first homilies — 30 years ago 8:20 Preaching as an ‘art' 11:41 Preaching that leads to "missionary discipleship" 15:33 Not just the words of the homily — but the delivery 18:20 A nun challenges him to change how he preaches 23:00 AI homilies: Yes or No? 25:19 25:58 AI homilies: thin prompts vs. deep prompts 30:10 AI Hallucination and scriptural analysis 37:20 What are the ethical guardrails for an AI homily? Brendan's homilies: https://www.frbrendanmcguire.org/homilies-master Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

OpenEvidence didn't leave Europe because of regulation alone — its ad-and-data business model never fit the European market. When OpenEvidence, the $12B clinical AI search platform used daily by over 40% of US physicians, withdrew from the EU and UK in April 2026 citing the EU AI Act, European clinicians lost a tool many had quietly adopted. In this episode, Philippe Habets — physician-scientist and CEO of Amsterdam-based EvidenceHunt — argues the story is as much about business models as regulation: ad-funded clinical search and selling clinician search behaviour to pharma don't transfer to Europe, where clinicians distrust anything that looks commercial. We also examine what AI evidence search is measurably doing inside hospitals: more uniform knowledge across teams, fewer junior-to-senior consultations, faster decisions — and the open question of whether that convergence improves care or narrows clinical thinking. Guest: Philippe Habets, MD PhD, CEO & co-founder, EvidenceHunt (Amsterdam) What the conversation covers: - Why OpenEvidence left Europe: EU AI Act vs the ad-based and data-selling business model - What hospitals did after OpenEvidence's exit — governance, procurement, shadow AI use - How AI literature search changes clinical decision making and medical hierarchies - Automation bias, tunnel vision and who is liable when AI is wrong - Guardrails in practice: PII stripping, refusing clinical advice, reformulating case questions into research questions - Why LLM answers differ between tools — and the omission problem in complex patients - Living guidelines: automating systematic literature reviews and guideline updates (some protocols are 17 years old) - Should patients have access to the same evidence tools as clinicians? - EvidenceHunt vs OpenEvidence: data sources, GDPR, medical device regulation - What won't change in healthcare AI in the next three years Previous episode with Philippe Habets (2023): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8tC0B4NvpM CHAPTERS 00:00 Introduction 03:11 OpenEvidence leaves Europe: what it meant for a European competitor 04:31 No user spike — but hospitals started asking questions 06:54 What EvidenceHunt is: from PubMed frustration to systematic reviews 11:35 How clinicians actually adopt AI evidence tools 13:46 Uniform knowledge, fewer senior consultations: measured effects on clinical thinking 16:24 Tunnel vision, automation bias and the liability question 18:04 Guardrails in practice: PII stripping and refusing clinical advice 20:31 The omission problem: evidence is group statistics, patients are N of 1 23:26 The real reason OpenEvidence left: ads, data-selling and European distrust 29:03 Should patients have the same evidence tools as clinicians? 31:51 Why disclaimers aren't enough — safeguards must be enforced in the product 33:43 Living guidelines: automating updates for protocols up to 17 years old 40:00 The biggest product challenge: too many features, one clean interface 41:40 What won't change in healthcare AI in the next three years FACES OF DIGITAL HEALTH Website: https://www.facesofdigitalhealth.com Newsletter: https://fodh.substack.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/faces-of-digital-health Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4cElKJHrauyP6QJQaCkvdY Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/faces-of-digital-health/id1194284040 #digitalhealth #healthcareAI #OpenEvidence #EUAIAct #clinicaldecisionsupport #evidencebasedmedicine #healthtech

Socially Democratic is back with the July Mailbag, and we're here to answer your questions on AI regulation, nationalising critical infrastructure, and whether Victorians should be nervous about the state election.Host Stephen Donnelly is joined by former Chief of Staff to Daniel Andrews and Managing Partner at FMRS Advisory Lissie Ratcliff, and the Director of Campaigns and Strategy at Unions NSW, Todd Pinkerton.They cover:

It's (RE)quipping Wednesday! This is a reboot of a past Equipping Men in Ten episode, EP #741 "Christians are sexist!" "The Bible is misogynistic!" We've all heard the accusations: many atheists and deconstructing Christians assert that the Bible endorses the oppression of women.  In this week's 10-minute (RE)quipping episode, Pastor Jim Ramos responds to the accusation that the Bible is a work that subjugates women and endorses sexism, and teaches you how you might be reading certain passages wrong. Want to protect your marriage? Get our free ebook: 7 Guardrails to Protect Your Marriage Before It's Too Late. https://meninthearena.org/pages/7-marriage-guardrails  Has Men in the Arena helped you make a change in your life, small or large? We want to hear your impact story! You can start a ministry to father the fatherless in your church! Learn how with our sponsor, Kids Outdoor Zone at https://kidsoutdoorzone.com/arena.

Send us Fan MailWhen a teenager expresses suicidal thoughts to an AI chatbot, what happens next?In this clip from our episode “Who Sets the Rules for AI in Medicine?”, hosts David E. Williams and John Driscoll and Dr. John Whyte, CEO of the American Medical Association, break down why minors need stronger protections from AI chatbots than adults do, and why the line between a wellness app and a medical device matters more than the industry wants to admit.Listen to the full episode here

Harvey Mason Jr., CEO of the Recording Academy, joins the Peggy Smedley Show at Think 2026 to share his candid take on AI and the future of music. From how producers are already using AI as a creative collaborator in the studio, to the 75,000 AI-generated songs hitting streaming platforms every day — Harvey breaks down why AI is a powerful tool, not a replacement for human creativity, and why legislation, transparency, and proper crediting are non-negotiable. Topics covered: How artists are using AI iteratively in the studio The disruption AI is bringing to streaming and distribution Why younger creators see no limits — and what that means for the industry Who should set the boundaries for AI in music Will we ever have a truly "soulful" AI? Recorded live at IBM Think 2026.   https://PeggySmedleyShow.com

Men are built to bond through challenge and shared purpose. In this 'Average Joe' conversation, Jim Ramos sits down with friend Kenn Walsh to talk about why men seem to bond together differently than women. God has wired you to connect and create strong brotherhood, but it doesn't happen in the convenience of everyday life. Check out www.thewildernessexp.org for more information Want to protect your marriage? Get our free ebook: 7 Guardrails to Protect Your Marriage Before It's Too Late. https://meninthearena.org/pages/7-marriage-guardrails  Has Men in the Arena helped you make a change in your life, small or large? We want to hear your impact story! https://meninthearena.org/pages/hero-stories  You can start a ministry to father the fatherless in your church! Learn how with our sponsor, Kids Outdoor Zone at https://kidsoutdoorzone.com/arena.  

Why AI Mental Health Chatbots Fail When It Matters Most: The Hidden Vulnerabilities Stress-Testing Reveals - An Interview with Shirali and Arul Nigam of Circuit Breaker Labs Shirali and Arul Nigam of Circuit Breaker Labs on why AI mental health chatbots fail, how stress-testing exposes their hidden vulnerabilities, and what therapists need to know. Curt and Katie talk with Shirali and Arul Nigam, the sibling co-founders of Circuit Breaker Labs, about what therapists tend to get wrong about AI, why the safety infrastructure behind many mental health chatbots is weaker than it looks, and how their team stress-tests these tools to find dangerous failures before real users ever encounter them. Generative AI is probabilistic, so the same prompt can return a safe answer one moment and a harmful one the next. Shirali and Arul explain how guardrails get bypassed by a misspelled word, a teenager's slang, or the hundredth message in a long conversation, why mental health chatbots tend to fail in the moments that matter most, and what stress-testing hundreds of thousands of simulated conversations actually reveals about model safety. The conversation closes on what clinicians can do now, why clinical insight is the missing ingredient in AI safety, and why third-party validation is becoming the standard regulators and developers expect. Used well, AI can be a supplement to care or a gateway to a human therapist, but it is not a replacement, and getting there safely starts with building clinical insight in from the foundation. In this episode, we discuss: - Why people usually turn to AI in place of no care, not in place of a therapist - Why generative AI's unpredictability, not a single bad answer, is the real safety problem - How a misspelling, slang, or a long conversation can slip past chatbot guardrails - Why AI mental health chatbots tend to fail in the highest-risk moments - What stress-testing hundreds of thousands of conversations reveals about model safety - Why clinical insight is the missing ingredient, and what clinicians can do now Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 1:38 - Meet Shirali and Arul Nigam and Circuit Breaker Labs 3:37 - What therapists get wrong about AI 5:28 - Deterministic versus generative AI, and why the risk scales 8:26 - The safety problem in AI mental health: trust, training data, and agreeableness 11:29 - Guardrails, lifeguard models, and the 988 problem 17:30 - Deploying clinical insight at scale and building safety in from the start 21:09 - How stress-testing works: context pollution and adversarial simulation 27:11 - What the stress tests reveal: variance, typos, and bypassed guardrails 30:59 - Regulation, credential hallucination, and third-party validation 36:58 - What clinicians can do, and the missing clinical insight 40:20 - Where to find Circuit Breaker Labs Guest Bios: Shirali and Arul Nigam are siblings and the co-founders of Circuit Breaker Labs, which autonomously pressure-tests the AI systems that interact with people to find hidden mental health vulnerabilities before they reach real users. Shirali brings expertise in neuroscience, translational research, and clinical work, with experience at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus, NIH NINDS, Harvard's Wyss Institute, Johns Hopkins, and Children's National. She holds a BS in Biomedical Engineering from The George Washington University and an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Arul has conducted technical and policy research on ethical AI, with a focus on bias and fairness, at Georgetown University and Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, and holds a BSBA in Operations and Analytics from Georgetown University. Learn more at circuitbreakerlabs.ai. Full show notes and transcript: mtsgpodcast.com Join the Modern Therapist Community Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/mtsgpodcast Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/therapyreimagined Modern Therapist's Survival Guide Creative Credits Voice Over by DW McCann: https://www.facebook.com/McCannDW/ Music by Crystal Grooms Mangano: https://groomsymusic.com/

In binge eating recovery, many people believe they should be able to keep every food in the house, eat every food casually, and handle every food environment without support. But recovery is not about proving you can do everything the hard way.In this episode, we talk about guardrails: practical supports that make desired behaviors easier and reduce the setups that tend to make eating feel chaotic. Guardrails might include buying smaller portions, putting certain foods out of sight, using a Kitchen Safe, asking for help at home, planning food when traveling, or choosing the conditions that make a tricky food feel calmer.You'll learn why guardrails are not the same as bans, why needing support does not mean you're failing, and how to tell the difference between a supportive guardrail and punitive restriction.New to the show? Start Here: https://breakingupwithbingeeating.transistor.fm/start-herePick the listening path that fits what you're dealing with right now.

Our guest on this episode of The Member Engagement Show is Joe DeLisle, Jr., Director of Council Relations for the American Medical Group Association (AMGA). Joe shares how he and AMGA have been using AI for everything from community discussion summaries and meeting prep to member research and internal workflows. Listen in for real examples of how one association is applying AI to improve member value and make their work easier at the same time. Topics covered include: How AI is saving time while keeping humans in the driver's seat. Using AI for repeatable processes. Using AI to assist in members whose field of knowledge is not yours. Using AI with your email inbox to source, create, and deliver relevant member content. Using AI to free up time to execute on really good ideas you've been sitting on for a while. Using AI for meetings and events, before, during and after. Using AI for member and industry intelligence. A message for those with AI-reluctance. What you should tell AI when you're setting it up. Guardrails for protecting data. An example of how to roll out AI to an organization.   Some Helpful Links Share your association engagement stories with us, marketing@higherlogic.com Our host, Kelly Whelan on LinkedIn    

Ever handled a situation with your wife so poorly that you wished you could rewind and do it all over again? What happens when your brain's programming from childhood collide with real-life challenges in your marriage? In this week's expert interview, Jim Ramos brings in expert Ron Deal for insight on how your brain's wiring can lead to assumptions or reactions that sabotage communication. You'll get four practical steps to stop your toxic cycles in their tracks, rebuild trust, and learn how to respond to your wife with wisdom instead of emotion in tough moments. Check our Ron Deal's book 'The Mindful Marriage'. Want to protect your marriage? Get our free ebook: 7 Guardrails to Protect Your Marriage Before It's Too Late. Has Men in the Arena helped you make a change in your life, small or large? We want to hear your impact story! You can start a ministry to father the fatherless in your church! Learn how with our sponsor, Kids Outdoor Zone at https://kidsoutdoorzone.com/arena.

Itay Golan is the CEO of Deals Agent and a former bank executive with 15 years of experience across the deal lifecycle at firms such as DealLogic, S&P Capital IQ, and Bloomberg. In his second appearance on Test. Optimize. Scale: Itay breaks down how agentic AI is leveling the playing field in capital markets, allowing small banks and funds to compete with the bulge bracket for deal origination. This is a deep look at how AI is moving from a novelty layer atop financial data to a mission-critical, revenue-generating tool that tells bankers where their next deal will come from. What We Cover: - Why most deal origination today runs on Rolodexes and league tables instead of strategy - How Deals Agent uses a proprietary model, not a wrapper on Claude or ChatGPT - 15 years of banker interviews and workflows trained into a vertical AI model - Why data privacy matters: no data leakage, no training your competitors - A live demo: comparing your deals against peers and finding origination targets - How AI surfaces the hot sectors, geographies, and deal types worth your resources - Guardrails against hallucination and why every insight comes with sources and confidence levels - Why the ECM and IPO space was untapped white space for agentic AI - What this means for advisory fees, access, and who wins mandates in five years - Lessons on pivoting: from productivity tool to revenue-generating platform - Why every "no" from a customer is a signal to iterate, not quit - How to identify your ICP and scale strategically Connect with Itay: Email: info@dealsagent.ai LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/itaygolan/ Subscribe to Test. Optimize. Scale. for weekly conversations on growth marketing, business strategy, and what is actually working right now. CHAPTER TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - Intro 1:00 - Itay's second appearance and the through line from crowdfunding to AI 2:30 - Democratizing deal access for small banks and funds 4:00 - Why Deals Agent is a proprietary model, not a ChatGPT wrapper 6:00 - 15 years of banker workflows trained into the model 7:30 - The data privacy advantage: no leakage, no training competitors 10:00 - Turning behavioral data into origination insights 11:30 - Human vs. AI: productivity gains and a whole new capability 13:00 - Guardrails against hallucination, sources, and confidence levels 15:00 - Live demo: comparing your deals against peers 17:00 - Finding and qualifying origination targets in real time 18:00 - The competitive landscape and where Deals Agent fits 20:00 - Why M&A and ECM are ready for AI now 22:00 - What this means for funds, fees, and access in five years 25:00 - How long Deals Agent has been in development 26:00 - Advice for founders and banks: go for it and act now 28:00 - First mover advantage and the cost of waiting 29:00 - Pivots: from analyst tool to revenue-critical platform 31:00 - Why listening to the market beats being married to your idea 33:00 - Scaling strategically and identifying your ICP 36:00 - Where to find Deals Agent and final thoughts

It's (RE)quipping Wednesday! This is a reboot of a past Equipping Men in Ten episode, EP #648 How much TV do you watch each night? If you're a typical American, it might add up to more than you think. In this week's 10-minute equipping episode, Jim Ramos takes a look at television's place in the life of a Christian man. Some of the ideas in this episode are related to our audio-only interviews with Matt Friedman (Kill the Flatscreen and Discipleship and Your Kids) about his book, Discipleship in the Home. Want to protect your marriage? Get our free ebook: 7 Guardrails to Protect Your Marriage Before It's Too Late. Has Men in the Arena helped you make a change in your life, small or large? We want to hear your impact story! You can start a ministry to father the fatherless in your church! Learn how with our sponsor, Kids Outdoor Zone at https://kidsoutdoorzone.com/arena.

Check out Tacci Bots: https://taccibots.com/ Follow Paul: https://www.instagram.com/paultacci/ Follow Kimberly: https://www.instagram.com/kimberlylovi/ Ep. 213 - Kimberly is joined by AI Systems Architect and Integrator Paul Tacci to demystify the fast-paced world of artificial intelligence and digital transformation. Designed specifically for small-to-medium business owners who feel overwhelmed by the sheer velocity of modern technology, the conversation outlines Tacci's expert "AI Blueprint" framework for auditing business operations from A to Z. He discusses how companies can eliminate ancient, manual workflows and error-prone spreadsheets by introducing AI layers organically—one bite-sized piece at a time. The episode features a definitive breakdown of when to utilize ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, highlighting the core philosophy that the goal of technology is not to replace human experts, but to automate repetitive busywork so professionals can focus on high-value client experiences. Beyond business automation, the discussion takes a deep dive into the realities of parenting in the digital age. As a hands-on father of four, Tacci opens up about navigating AI usage at home, setting crucial guardrails for minors, and the psychological importance of ensuring children turn to the trusted humans in their lives for support rather than an AI chat interface. The episode also uncovers the hidden operational goldmine within everyday meeting recordings and voice notes, explaining how businesses can easily transform standard transcripts into robust content factories. Packed with practical, actionable strategies, this interview provides viewers with a clear roadmap to keep their organizations on the cutting edge without sacrificing brand standards or the vital human touch! Chapter Timestamps: 02:15 - Navigating the "Home Alone" Reality of Large Families 03:30 - The Merch Business & Brand Standards 04:55 - Growing Up in the Silicon Valley Tech Boom 06:15 - The Bite-Sized Tech Rule: How to Avoid AI Overwhelm 07:30 - The AI Blueprint: Auditing Your Workflows ($1M–$50M Revenue) 10:00 - Custom Knowledge Bases vs. Public LLMs 11:30 - Will AI Replace Sales Teams? 13:00 - ChatGPT vs. Claude vs. Gemini: Which Should You Use? 15:15 - Writing 10,000 Lines of Code in Weeks, Not Years 16:45 - AI in the Household: Parenting, Ethics, and Guardrails 19:30 - The Goldmine of Transcripts: Meetings & Voice Notes 21:30 - Wrapping Up & Where to Find Paul

What's the one verse that drives your life and shapes your faith journey? You need a verse to call our own that challenges you to live purposefully. In this week's message, Pastor Jim Ramos introduces the idea of a 'death verse'—a scripture that will define you when you meet Jesus face to face.  This message is from The MAG, The McMinnville Area Gathering for men in McMinnville, Oregon. Want to protect your marriage? Get our free ebook: 7 Guardrails to Protect Your Marriage Before It's Too Late. Has Men in the Arena helped you make a change in your life, small or large? We want to hear your impact story! You can start a ministry to father the fatherless in your church! Learn how with our sponsor, Kids Outdoor Zone at https://kidsoutdoorzone.com/arena.

In this rapid-fire edit of our multiple interviews with Michelle Watson Canfield ("The Dad Whisperer"), she blasts through 15 practical ideas for connecting with your daughter taken from her book 'Dad, Here's What I Really Need from You: A Guide for Connecting with Your Daughter's Heart.' Want to protect your marriage? Get our free ebook: 7 Guardrails to Protect Your Marriage Before It's Too Late. Has Men in the Arena helped you make a change in your life, small or large? We want to hear your impact story! You can start a ministry to father the fatherless in your church! Learn how with our sponsor, Kids Outdoor Zone at https://kidsoutdoorzone.com/arena.

Theodora Skeadas has spent her career at the messy, consequential intersection of technology, governance, and harm reduction, long before "responsible AI" became a job title. She studied philosophy and government, witnessed the Arab Spring firsthand, spent years at Twitter facilitating the Global Trust and Safety Council, and now heads AI red teaming at Humane Intelligence while also serving as a PhD researcher at King's College London, board co-chair of the Integrity Institute, and advisory board chair of All Tech is Human. As she put it: she sleeps occasionally! We get into what red teaming is and why everyone, not just researchers and AI labs, should be doing it. We also talk about how trust and safety and AI governance are more connected than the headlines suggest, what social scoring actually means (yep, like that Black Mirror episode), the human cost of Meta pulling its content moderation contracts, what it takes to get into responsible tech right now, and how companies should be thinking about AI in hiring and performance reviews.  We didn't even get into all of our questions, so we had to do a part 2... stay tuned! Chapters 00:00 - Felicia and Rachel get into it... Knicks win, New York City, and the need for human connection 09:30 - Theo's origin story: philosophy, the Arab Spring, and landing in responsible tech 14:51 - Twitter's Trust and Safety Council, AI governance, and why they're more connected than you'd think 19:01 - Red teaming: what it is, who does it, and why everyone should be involved 24:30 - Guardrails: from social media deny lists to the EU AI Act 30:33 - Meta, BPO contracts, and the global human cost of cutting content moderation 32:34 - Social scoring: from Black Mirror to reality 37:31 - Online fraud, vulnerable populations, and the case for critical thinking 42:07 - Getting into responsible AI: honest advice for a crowded, shrinking field 50:33 - AI in the workplace and the global picture: governance, bias, language gaps, and what's next Visit us at InclusionGeeks.com to stay up to date on all the ways you can make the workplace work for everyone! Check out Inclusion Geeks Academy and InclusionGeeks.com/podcast for the code to get a free mini course.

It's (RE)quipping Wednesday! This is a reboot of a past Equipping Men in Ten episode, EP #735 Are you a know-it-all? Do you have trouble taking criticism? Pretty sure you don't need direction from others? Find yourself judging the way others do things? Having a TEACHABLE spirit is vital when you're living out your best version of life in Christ. Even so, many of us walk around with a "know-it-all" attitude. In this week's 10-minute equipping episode, Pastor Jim Ramos teaches you 6 secrets a "know-it-all" attitude reveals about your heart and how it plays into your "Season of Manhood" (see "Seasons of Manhood" Part 1 and Part 2 ) Want to protect your marriage? Get our free ebook: 7 Guardrails to Protect Your Marriage Before It's Too Late. Has Men in the Arena helped you make a change in your life, small or large? We want to hear your impact story! You can start a ministry to father the fatherless in your church! Learn how with our sponsor, Kids Outdoor Zone at https://kidsoutdoorzone.com/arena.

This Episode is Sponsored by StayFi Your ultimate tool for Vacation Rental WiFi marketing allowing you to collect guest emails automatically via custom captive WiFi login splash pages. Drive repeat direct bookings and convert your OTA bookings to book direct for their next visit. Visit https://stayfi.com/vrsuccess/ and use code VRSUCCESS for 50% off 3 months of StayFi service. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Sab Mulligan came into the short-term rental industry from a decade in media production and another in tech education, and she arrived with a beginner's mind that turned out to be an advantage.  What she noticed in those early industry conversations wasn't the passion for hospitality she'd expected. It was burnout, worn almost as a badge of honour. People competing over who'd taken the most 3am calls. She found that troubling, and it drove the approach she'd go on to build at Zzzing, a fast-growing property management company based in Malta. Three and a half years later, Zzzing has grown from 50 properties to 650, and their AI agent Zoe handles 90% of all guest communications across the portfolio. But what makes this conversation interesting isn't the scale or the technology. It's the philosophy behind it: that tech should be silent, and hospitality should be loud. That AI doesn't replace the human side of this business, rather it gives people more time and energy to deliver it. Sab and I talked about her TRT framework for designing AI policies, the seven guest moments that anchor everything Zzzing does, how they handled team resistance to AI adoption, and what she'd say to property managers still watching from the sidelines. Key Takeaways  Tech should be silent, hospitality should be loud. The goal of AI in guest communication isn't to replace the host's voice.  It's there to deliver that voice consistently, at any hour, across every conversation.  AI amplifies what you already have in place. If your policies aren't documented, AI won't fix that. It will amplify the mess. Getting your foundations right before deploying AI isn't a delay,it's the work.  Sab's TRT framework makes policy design accessible. Trigger (what initiates this communication), Reaction (how you would genuinely respond), Tone (the warmth, the friendliness, the examples), and Guardrails (when does the AI stop and hand to a human).  The seven guest moments give you a map. Discovery, booking, arrival, access, during-stay, checkout, and come-back. Everything you need from AI slots into one of those seven buckets.  Humanising the AI agent internally matters as much as externally. Naming Zoe and giving her a clear job description helped Zzzing's team understand where the AI started and stopped, which reduced resistance significantly.  Test your own policies. Don't experiment on real guests. Make a test booking and run your AI through every scenario every few days. You are in the driver's seat and AI isn't taking over. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Can you follow Jesus without being part of a local church?  In this 'Average Joe' conversation, Jim Ramos sits down with longtime friend Ben Sullivan to tackle this tough topic head-on. By defining what the church truly is and digging into Scripture, they separate tradition from biblical truth and answer one of the most common questions men wrestle with today. Want to protect your marriage? Get our free ebook: 7 Guardrails to Protect Your Marriage Before It's Too Late. You can start a ministry to father the fatherless in your church! Learn how with our sponsor, Kids Outdoor Zone at https://kidsoutdoorzone.com/arena.