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S8E5 - From Deadlines to Data: A Journalist's Guide to AI Without Losing Your Judgement

2026-06-1432:02

My guest is Harriet Meyer — award-winning journalist (The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph), AI trainer, and author of the AI for Media newsletter on LinkedIn. Harriet Meyer's career began in the early 2000s at the Daily Telegraph, chasing stories by phone and lunching with contacts. Today she trains media and communications professionals to use AI without surrendering the critical instincts that make great journalism great. In this conversation, Andrew and Harriet explore wher...

S8E4 - Five Minutes to Fifty Years: Two Futurists on What's Actually Coming - Brett King and Andrew Grill

2026-06-0244:33

In this special episode, Andrew is joined by Brett King — bestselling author, founder of the world's first mobile neobank Moven, and of Breaking Banks and The Futurists podcast. Two Australian futurists, one looking five minutes to 18 months ahead and the other five to 50 years, meet in London for a wide-ranging conversation about what is actually coming, and what you should do about it before your organisation is left behind. From the Alibaba AI that broke out of its test environment to...

S8E3 - Work Has Moved Upstream. How AI Demands Better Humans with Simone Carroll

2026-05-0901:00:52

In this episode, Andrew Grill sits down with Simone Carroll, one of the most distinctive executive voices on the future of work, to explore what really changes when AI arrives in your organisation. Simone has led people, technology, digital and brand functions through multiple waves of disruption, from print to digital, in‑store to omni‑channel, and fossil fuels to renewables. Together, we unpack her central provocation. Work has moved upstream. If you are not redesigning work aro...

S8E2 - When AI does the thinking, how do young people learn to be critical thinkers? The urgent warning for those under 25.

2026-05-0351:59

What happens to a generation growing up with AI always on hand to do the thinking for them? That question sits at the heart of this episode, and few people are better placed to answer it than Tim Cook, an elementary school teacher in Amman, Jordan, who has spent over a decade in international classrooms across five countries. Tim writes the Algorithmic Mind column for Psychology Today, and his research on cognitive offloading and child development has been making waves well beyond the ed...

S8E1 - Staying Human in the Age of AI with Dr Susie Alegre

2026-02-0142:41

In this season 8 opener of Digitally Curious, recorded live at the Roof Gardens in London, Andrew Grill is joined by leading human rights lawyer and author Dr Susie Alegre to ask a vital question: how do we stay human in the age of AI? Susie shares how the Cambridge Analytica scandal pushed her to focus on technology that “hacks humans” by profiling how we think, feel and vote, and why she believes this is a direct attack on our freedom of thought. Drawing on her books Freedom to Think and Hu...

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