AI - All you need to know!
Artificial Intelligence is the most transformative technology since the harnessing of electricity according to former Google CEO, Eric Schmidt. A world where personal AI agents anticipate our every need and are our closest companions is potentially just around the corner.
And that’s where Don’t Stop Us Now AI Edition comes in. Convinced about the mammoth impact of AI, we’re going ‘all in’ on AI for the foreseeable future. Together with leading experts, we’ll explore how your job may change or what new skills we’ll all need to stay relevant. We’ll bring you the smartest of AI tools and tips you can try out now, and our impressive guests will paint vivid, and sometimes mind blowing, pictures of how their industries will change in the coming years.
Keep listening for all you need to know and actionable insights.
On Keeping AI in Check – Professor Svetha Venkatesh
Interview | Episode 228
You've no doubt heard about AI agents working autonomously in the background of businesses everywhere. Here's an uncomfortable question: who, or what, is actually checking that they're doing what they were asked to do? Our guest this week has spent her career preparing to solve this exact problem. Professor Svetha Venkatesh is a Deakin University Distinguished Professor and Co-Director of the Deakin Applied AI Initiative. She’s been named one of the world's top 15 women in AI research, and holder of one of the highest research honours Australia can bestow...
The highly trained ‘eyes’ of Harrison AI – Jarrel Seah
Interview | Episode 227
This week’s episode takes us inside the world of medical imaging and the AI that's innovating it to make this vital part of healthcare and diagnostics more accessible for patients everywhere. Our guest is Dr Jarrel Seah, Chief Medical Officer and Chief AI Officer at Harrison AI, an Australian AI-native company on a mission to ease the persistent bottlenecks caused by radiology backlogs globally. Jarrel is uniquely placed to talk about Harrison’s work and impact because not only is he Chief Medical and Chief AI Officer at Harrison Ai, he is also a radiologist at a major public hospital in Melbourne...
Undercover Agents vs Scammers – Dali Kaafar
Interview | Episode 226
Scammers are a global epidemic and most of us feel powerless against them. The good news is that our guest this week has built the tech, and a company, to fight back. Dali Kaafar is the founder and CEO of Apate, a counter-intelligence company that deploys conversational AI to fight scammers at scale. Dali is also a Professor of Cybersecurity at Macquarie University and the Executive Director of its Cyber Security Hub. In 2025 he was named AI Academic/Researcher of the Year at the Australian AI Awards, and has been recognised as one of The Australian's Top 100 Innovators two years running....
AI Should Make Us Better – Dr. Vivienne Ming
Interview | Episode 225
If you've ever had a nagging feeling that the way you, and most other people, are using AI right now might actually be doing you harm, our guest this week has the research to back that hunch up. Dr. Vivienne Ming is a theoretical neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and author who calls herself a ‘Professional Mad Scientist’ and she means it! Vivienne has founded six startups, served as chief scientist at two others, and her latest book, 'Robot-Proof, When machines have all the answers, build better people', argues the vast majority of us are using AI the wrong way increasing our risk of cognitive decline and even dementia. She outlines the right way to use AI so that it makes us sharper versus hollowing us out...
Pawns or Players? The Future of AI – Claire and Greta
Jam | Episode 224
Until now, we've approached AI on the show as something we all need to experiment with, adapt to, and lean into. Today, we are taking a different approach. This is the episode where we share our frank views on where the world is at with AI development, and why the governance gap between what's being built and how it's being governed keeps us awake at night. We're not here to alarm you but we do think this is a conversation we all need to be a part of. The good news is that plenty of others think this is important too. We talk about Pope Leo XIV's remarkable encyclical Magnifica Humanitas and the fact that he invited Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah ....