Secret IVF children. NDAs. A kill list. A Molotov cocktail. And 30,000 Oracle workers who trained the AI that replaced them. The backlash is here. Topics Discussed & Source References for Further Reading: The OpenAI Lawsuit: ...
Muhammad Ali didn't win in Kinshasa by being passive. He had a plan. George Foreman didn't. So — is that what's playing out between the two biggest AI labs right now? Anthropic tripled its revenue in four months. OpenAI kille...
Atlassian just cut 1,600 people — including the teams building their own AI. What does that signal for the rest of us? Stephen and Lauren dig into the hidden coordination tax bleeding most teams dry, why the number five keeps...
Here you go: The Pentagon wanted Claude for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. Anthropic said no. Trump said fire them like dogs. Then it got weird. This week we're unpacking the biggest AI story of the year — the full-blown collision between the US government and the company that dared to b…
What happens when the most powerful government in the world tells an AI company to remove its ethics — and the company says no? In our Season 2 opener, Stephen and Lauren dig into Claude's Constitution: a 23,000-word document...
In this episode of The AI Transition , we step away from the weekly headlines and look ahead to 2026. What are the most likely AI shocks coming next, and how prepared are we for their human impact? We avoid the speculative hy...
As 2025 comes to a close, Stephen and Lauren take a look back at a "crazy" year of rapid transitions and massive technological shifts. In this episode of the AI Transition Podcast, they count down the top five events that defined the human side of the AI revolution—from the surprisingly high prefer…
In this episode of The AI Transition , Stephen and Christiane explore why the same AI wave hits people so differently — and what that means for leaders and teams navigating rapid change. Using the Extended DISC behavioural mo...
As home robots move from sci-fi novelty to everyday reality, a new question emerges: what happens when the machines in our homes know more about us than we realise? In this episode, Stephen and Lauren dive into the growing pr...
In this episode of the AI Transition Podcast, Stephen and Lauren explore the evolving landscape of organizational roles and hierarchies in the context of AI integration. They discuss the hype surrounding AI's impact on job ti...
The consulting world is shifting fast. Accenture’s cutting 12,000 jobs. Deloitte’s training hundreds of thousands in AI. And somewhere in between, the rest of us are wondering — how do we keep up when everything changes? Step...
AI is getting weird, fun, and deeply human. Stephen and Lauren dive into Google’s NanoBanana, old photos restored by AI, and the clash between Apple and Google. From creativity boosts to job shake-ups, this episode explores h...
In this episode of the AI Transition Podcast, Stephen and Lauren discuss the current state of the AI industry, exploring whether the AI bubble is bursting. They delve into the hype cycle surrounding AI, historical parallels w...
In this episode, Stephen and Lauren dive into the rocky rollout of GPT-5 and what it reveals about hype cycles, human attachment to AI, and the future of enterprise adoption. They unpack: The Gartner Hype Cycle and how GPT-5’...
Two Aussie giants. Two very different AI plays. In this episode, Stephen and Lauren break down how CBA cut frontline jobs with AI while Optus chose to supercharge staff with it — and why the outcomes couldn’t be more differen...
In this episode, Stephen and Lauren explore the evolving relationship between AI and music. From the emotional power of live gigs to the soulless smoothness of algorithmic beats, they ask: where does the human touch still mat...
In this episode of The AI Transition , I explore the weird, wild world of AI-generated music — not by making it, but by diving into the Trending tab on Suno . I picked 13 tracks at random and hit record. Some of them surprise...
What happens when you bolt cutting-edge AI onto creaky old systems? Chaos, mostly. In this episode, Stephen is joined by transformation expert Lauren to explore the real roadblocks to AI adoption inside large organisations. S...
The AI jobs debate is spiralling — are we heading for mass unemployment or a boom in new roles? In this episode of The AI Transition , Stephen is joined by strategist and engineer Nate Jones to flip the script. Drawing on the...
Eight years after warning us about social media, Tristan Harris is back at TED — and what he says about AI is… well, insane. But beneath the alarm bells is something even more personal: a challenge to how we live, work, and f...
We wrap up the Meaning Audit with three powerful prompts: Where do you thrive? Why do you work? How do you move forward? From AI sycophancy to drug approvals, we unpack the risks of over-personalised machines—and what happens...
In this episode of The AI Transition , Christiane and Stephen explore what happens when your career – and your identity – hit a workquake . They kick off with two striking AI stories: 🐬 Dolphin Talk on Android – Google and Ge...
In this episode of The AI Transition, Christiane and Stephen unpack the concept of "Work360" — a new lens for understanding the five jobs we all do: the main job, side hustle, hope job, care job, and the ghost job. ✨ You’ll h...
What happens when the ground shifts beneath us — literally or metaphorically? In this episode, Christiane and Stephen explore the idea of “workquakes” and “lifequakes” , drawing on Bruce Feiler’s work to unpack how our career...
