AI Applied Fluency

Listen in as we talk with Kris Mondlane, co-founder of agentichighway.ai.About Kris: He has 10+ years translating emerging technologies into scalable, high-impact solutions for Fortune 500s,governments, and startups. His expertise is in AI product strategy, enterprise adoption, and rapidprototyping, delivering internal tools and customer-facing products across insurance, fintech, andhealthcare.His Approach: Kris combines user-centered design, agile execution, and executive facilitation to drivemeasurable performance gains, revenue lift, and improved customer outcomes.GUEST LINKS===========Kris on LinkedInlinkedin.com/in/kriscmonKris on Githubhttps://github.com/pappacorleoneHOST LINKS==========Robert MoranBoston, MALinkedIn profilehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/bobmoran/The Trauma-Informed Entrepreneur (Kindle & Paperback)https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G6MQRHPR/crid=CAR35PMW3CIKDirector Audience, Community, and RevenueHowland, Gorham & Wolf ProductionsE: Robert (at) hgandw.comSTATION LINKS=============Brookline Interactive Group (BIG)46 Tappan St, Brookline, MA 02445https//brooklineinteractive.orgBIG is an integrated media and technology education center and a community media hub for Brookline, MA and the region. BIG facilitates diverse community dialogue, incubates and funds hyperlocal storytelling, arts, journalism, media literacy, and technology projects, including Virtual Reality (VR), and serves over 500 youth and adults annually through innovative classes and partnerships.BIG on Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/brooklineinteractive/The BIG Newsletter Archivehttps://us13.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=7992ace09f245d6a5d4410c3f&id=d0ba9e849c

Listen in as we talk with Dan Porder and Daniel Whytock co-founders of Valae.ai, based in London.The problem isn't search. It's connection.Your documents don't talk to each other. Knowledge is trapped in files, people, and tools that were never designed to connect.Pluck reads everything: contracts, emails, reports, Slack threads. Then it maps the relationships between people, organizations, projects, and concepts across every source. Automatically. No schema. No tagging. No data team.One knowledge graph. Every tool, supercharged.Your knowledge graph doesn't just live in Pluck. Plug it into any tool your team already uses, and give every platform the intelligence of your entire company.Your CRM answers client questions with full deal context. Your support tool resolves tickets using every document you've ever written. Your AI assistant finally understands your business, because Pluck feeds it everything.GUEST LINKS===========Pluck - Their Producthttps://pluckagent.comValae - Their Companyhttps://valae.aiDan Porderhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/danporder/Daniel Whytockhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-whytock/HOST LINKS==========Robert MoranBoston, MALinkedIn profilehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/bobmoran/The Trauma-Informed Entrepreneur (Kindle & Paperback)https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G6MQRHPR/crid=CAR35PMW3CIKDirector Audience, Community, and RevenueHowland, Gorham & Wolf ProductionsE: Robert (at) hgandw.comSTATION LINKS=============Brookline Interactive Group (BIG)46 Tappan St, Brookline, MA 02445https//brooklineinteractive.orgBIG is an integrated media and technology education center and a community media hub for Brookline, MA and the region. BIG facilitates diverse community dialogue, incubates and funds hyperlocal storytelling, arts, journalism, media literacy, and technology projects, including Virtual Reality (VR), and serves over 500 youth and adults annually through innovative classes and partnerships.BIG on Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/brooklineinteractive/The BIG Newsletter Archivehttps://us13.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=7992ace09f245d6a5d4410c3f&id=d0ba9e849c

Listen in as we share details about Maor Shlomo's Origin Story of Base44.HOST LINKS==========Robert MoranBoston, MALinkedIn profilehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/bobmoran/BOOK - The Trauma-Informed Entrepreneur by Robert Moranhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G6MQRHPR/crid=CAR35PMW3CIKMy other podcasts are:The INNOVATE, THRIVE, CREATE podcasthttps://open.spotify.com/show/2RmD1fvn5ZwiTgbmsDAri6The Fundraising & Funraising podcasthttps://open.spotify.com/show/25cklXjNtLcl7pfCK7Ci54Director Audience, Community, and Revenue DevelopmentHowland, Gorham & Wolf ProductionsE: robert (at) hgandw.comSTATION LINKS=============Brookline Interactive Group (BIG)46 Tappan St, Brookline, MA 02445https//brooklineinteractive.orgBIG is an integrated media and technology education center and a community media hub for Brookline, MA and the region. BIG facilitates diverse community dialogue, incubates and funds hyperlocal storytelling, arts, journalism, media literacy, and technology projects, including Virtual Reality (VR), and serves over 500 youth and adults annually through innovative classes and partnerships.BIG on Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/brooklineinteractive/The BIG Newsletter Archivehttps://us13.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=7992ace09f245d6a5d4410c3f&id=d0ba9e849c

Listen in as we listen to an AI generated story about "How MIT Founders Actually Built Silicon Valley."I like reading and listening to inspirational stories. I was interested in getting clarity on some famous founders from MIT as a source of inspiration for me and for the people I'm meeting at MIT that are interested in starting AI companies.A quick search turned up an article from 2014 by Eugene Kim entitled, "Companies Founded by MIT Grads."From his bio on BusinessInside.com: In 2022, Eugene broke a story uncovering Amazon’s practice of deceptively enrolling customers in Prime and deliberately making cancellation difficult. A year later, the Federal Trade Commission sued the company, citing his reporting. That case culminated in a record $2.5 billion settlement in 2025.In the episode I share that:--I wanted to create an audio of the article so I could listen rather than read it.--I decided to be creative and rather than an audio, to turn it into a conversational audio using NotebookLM.--I tweaked the prompt to heighten the rivalry between MIT, Stanford, and Harvard.FEATURED LINKS==============Author Eugene Kimhttps://www.businessinsider.com/author/eugene-kimArticle: "Companies Founded by MIT Grads" by Eugene Kimhttps://www.businessinsider.com/compaines-founded-by-mit-grads-2014-8Sundai.Club (Weekly AI Hacks at MIT)https://www.sundai.club/HOST LINKS==========Robert MoranBoston, MALinkedIn profilehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/bobmoran/The Trauma-Informed Entrepreneur by Robert Moranhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G6MQRHPR/crid=CAR35PMW3CIKMy other podcasts are:The INNOVATE, THRIVE, CREATE podcasthttps://open.spotify.com/show/2RmD1fvn5ZwiTgbmsDAri6The Fundraising & Funraising podcasthttps://open.spotify.com/show/25cklXjNtLcl7pfCK7Ci54Director Audience, Community, and RevenueHowland, Gorham & Wolf ProductionsE: Robert (at) hgandw.comSTATION LINKS=============Brookline Interactive Group (BIG)46 Tappan St, Brookline, MA 02445https//brooklineinteractive.orgBIG is an integrated media and technology education center and a community media hub for Brookline, MA and the region. BIG facilitates diverse community dialogue, incubates and funds hyperlocal storytelling, arts, journalism, media literacy, and technology projects, including Virtual Reality (VR), and serves over 500 youth and adults annually through innovative classes and partnerships.BIG on Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/brooklineinteractive/The BIG Newsletter Archivehttps://us13.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=7992ace09f245d6a5d4410c3f&id=d0ba9e849c

Listen in as we talk with Kris Mondlane, AI Product & Innovation Leader in Somerville, MA.About Kris: He has 10+ years translating emerging technologies into scalable, high-impact solutions for Fortune 500s, governments, and startups. His expertise is in AI product strategy, enterprise adoption, and rapid prototyping, delivering internal tools and customer-facing products across insurance, fintech, and healthcare.His Approach: Kris combines user-centered design, agile execution, and executive facilitation to drive measurable performance gains, revenue lift, and improved customer outcomes.In the episode he shares his knowledge about:--Sundai Club--Evals for Agents--Observability, Alignment--Anthropic's recent blog post on how they do evals--Deterministic vs Non-deterministic programming--Finding "the best worst option"--Governance HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO--Negative Externalities--Agent Memory--Asking AI to articulate one's blind spots--Inference, Models, GPU's--BAA's (Business Associate Agreement)--The Holy Grail: Running One's Own ModelGUEST LINKS===========Kris on LinkedInlinkedin.com/in/kriscmonKris on Githubhttps://github.com/pappacorleoneAnthropic Blog post: "Demystifying evals for AI agents"***The capabilities that make agents useful also make them difficult to evaluate. The strategies that work across deployments combine techniques to match the complexity of the systems they measure.***https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/demystifying-evals-for-ai-agentsSundai.Club (Weekly AI Hackathons at MIT)https://www.sundai.club/HOST LINKS==========Robert MoranBoston, MALinkedIn profilehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/bobmoran/Director Audience, Community, and RevenueHowland, Gorham & Wolf ProductionsE: Robert (at) hgandw.comSTATION LINKS=============Brookline Interactive Group (BIG)46 Tappan St, Brookline, MA 02445https//brooklineinteractive.orgBIG is an integrated media and technology education center and a community media hub for Brookline, MA and the region. BIG facilitates diverse community dialogue, incubates and funds hyperlocal storytelling, arts, journalism, media literacy, and technology projects, including Virtual Reality (VR), and serves over 500 youth and adults annually through innovative classes and partnerships.BIG on Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/brooklineinteractive/The BIG Newsletter Archivehttps://us13.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=7992ace09f245d6a5d4410c3f&id=d0ba9e849c

Listen in as we talk with Andrew Mead, Founder of Vector Lab and host of an AI podcast.Andrew is a Machine Learning engineer focused on code generation and local AI.In the episode he shares his knowledge about--how AI companies train their Large Language Models (LLM's)--astronomical hiring salaries at Meta for AI engineers--AlphaGo--the Protein Folding Problem & the AlphaFold model--Reinforcement learning & Gradient descent--ChatGPT 4.0's fan base communityVector Lab is an AI consultancy that provides comprehensive AI resources to help you stay informed, implement solutions, and grow your business.--Weekly AI news--Expert consulting, and--Practical guides for software engineers, business leaders, and AI enthusiasts.Andrew received his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from UMass Amherst. Prior to launching Vector Lab he worked at several tech companies including Amazon on the Alexa project. He is also an integral part of the team at Sundai.Club and their weekly AI Hackathons at MIT in Cambridge.GUEST LINKS===========Newsletter Sign-uphttps://vectorlab.dev/news/AI News by the Vector Lab (Andrew's podcast)https://open.spotify.com/show/7LKYxvGAGSj1pso4aklh9OVector Labs (Andrew's AI Consultancy)https://vectorlab.dev/LinkedIn profile for Andrew Meadhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewmead10/Sundai.Club (Weekly AI Hackathons at MIT)https://www.sundai.club/HOST LINKS==========Robert MoranBoston, MALinkedIn profilehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/bobmoran/Director Audience, Community, and RevenueHowland, Gorham & Wolf ProductionsE: Robert (at) hgandw.comSTATION LINKS=============Brookline Interactive Group (BIG)46 Tappan St, Brookline, MA 02445https//brooklineinteractive.orgBIG is an integrated media and technology education center and a community media hub for Brookline, MA and the region. BIG facilitates diverse community dialogue, incubates and funds hyperlocal storytelling, arts, journalism, media literacy, and technology projects, including Virtual Reality (VR), and serves over 500 youth and adults annually through innovative classes and partnerships.BIG on Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/brooklineinteractive/The BIG Newsletter Archivehttps://us13.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=7992ace09f245d6a5d4410c3f&id=d0ba9e849c

The AI 2027 Report, Cross-Document Themes Summary (courtesy of ChatGPT):1. AI Alignment & Safety as a Core Design GoalAnthropic’s Claude Constitution lays out explicit values like harmlessness, honesty, and humility to guide model behavior. Ben Mann emphasizes that embedding safety into AI design also improves product quality. AI 2027 imagines both the success and failure scenarios depending on how rigorously these values are upheld.2. The Race to AGIAI 2027 dramatizes the escalating global race between OpenAI, Anthropic, and China’s fictional DeepCent to reach AGI. Ben Mann confirms the real-world intensity of this race, including the use of scaling laws, economic Turing tests, and $100M salaries.3. Value Encapsulation in AI ModelsClaude’s Constitution draws on diverse sources: the UN Declaration of Human Rights, Apple’s TOS, DeepMind’s Sparrow Rules, and non-Western values. Mann stresses that AI will absorb some value system—so we must choose deliberately rather than by default.4. Economic and Labor DisruptionAll documents warn of severe economic disruption. Mann predicts 20% white-collar unemployment by 2028. AI 2027 escalates this to 30% in some regions, resulting in major policy responses and social unrest.5. Governance, Oversight & the Role of ConstitutionsAI constitutions and alignment departments are proposed as tools for making AI transparent and steerable. Rather than constraints, these mechanisms are seen as essential for avoiding existential risks and earning public trust.SHOW LINKS==========The AI 2027 Report was authored by: Scott Alexander, Thomas Larsen, Eli Lifland, and Romeo Dean.Originally published on April 3, 2025,Available at https://ai-2027.com/ai-2027.pdfHOST LINKS==========Robert MoranBoston, MADirector Audience, Community, and RevenueHowland, Gorham & Wolf ProductionsE: Robert (at) hgandw.comSTATION LINKS=============Brookline Interactive Group (BIG)46 Tappan St, Brookline, MA 02445https//brooklineinteractive.orgBIG is an integrated media and technology education center and a community media hub for Brookline, MA and the region. BIG facilitates diverse community dialogue, incubates and funds hyperlocal storytelling, arts, journalism, media literacy, and technology projects, including Virtual Reality (VR), and serves over 500 youth and adults annually through innovative classes and partnerships.BIG on Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/brooklineinteractive/The BIG Newsletter Archivehttps://us13.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=7992ace09f245d6a5d4410c3f&id=d0ba9e849c

This is *AI AF*—short for *Applied Fluency*.The podcast that makes artificial intelligence… make sense.We cut through the noise to bring you *clarity*, *context*, and *real-world relevance*—No hype. No jargon. No BS.