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The episode discusses the importance of advancing human intelligence in the context of AI rather than merely focusing on automation.

The real AI question isn't about automation - it's whether we're designing technology to advance human capability or quietly engineer it out. In this episode, Dean van Leeuwen and Graeme Codrington ask the question most boardrooms aren't asking: are we advancing intelligence, or just advancing the artificial? Hear what happened when one of Nashville's Waymo driverless taxis ends up in a standoff with a road foreman that the algorithm can't understand, and why the Pope's new encyclical on AI - mirrors its 130-year-old predecessor from the height of the Industrial Revolution. You'll take away: • Demand "humans in the lead" not just "humans in the loop" - genuine responsibility for AI outcomes • Reframe AI as advancing intelligence - the language you use shapes the choices you make • Build the guardrails now - seatbelts weren't mandated until the 1980s; AI's side effects are already visible 🔗 Resources mentioned Magnificat Humanitatis - Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI → https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html#The_res_novae_of_our_time Rerum Novarum - Pope Leo XIII (1891) →…

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