The AI in Business Podcast
The AI in Business Podcast is for non-technical business leaders who need to find AI opportunities, align AI capabilities with strategy, and deliver ROI.
Each week, Emerj AI Research CEO Daniel Faggella and team interview top AI executives from Fortune 2000 firms and unicorn startups - uncovering trends, use-cases, and best practices for practical AI adoption.
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- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 26 minutes
- Episodes
- 1013
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2025
To Get Real with Artificial Intelligence, Take Off the Hollywood Fear Goggles
Dr. András Kornai wants to put emphasis on the real and near-term ethical considerations around AI. In this interview, Kornai peels off the Hollywood myth "layers" around consciousness and AI in orde…
Tuning the Keys for Robot Harmony
Daniel Berleant is an expert in information science and artificial intelligence, and is the author of the book he Human Race to the Future: What Could Happen - and What to Do. In this interview, we …
How Unconsciousness and Technology Shape Our Chaotic Worlds
Katherine Hayles is best known for her work as a postmodern social and literary critic. Now a professor at Duke University, Hayles joins TechEmergence for a discussion about the difference between co…
Thinking Outside the Body
Could we one day upload ourselves into a computer or chip? Keith Wiley thinks that one day, we might be able to replicate consciousness within another entity. In this episode, Dr. Wiley speaks to us …
Do Unto Your Smartphone as You Would Do Unto Others
When should we care about robots? How quickly should and will that change? These are just some of the thought points addressed by Professor David Gunkel, whose work on the moral valuations of AI is…
Artificial Intelligence Gives Power of Foresight in the Next Decade
We talk a lot about the future of technology on TechEmergence - the long-road potentials and ethical considerations that intersect the various paths of artificial intelligence. But keeping the conver…
A Robot Without a Body is Not Up for Thought
Do you need a body to think? This is a worthwhile (and also a perplexing) question, and an ongoing debate amongst roboticists. Cognitive Roboticist Dr. Mark Bickhard is part of a field of belief that…
How Humans Do, and Will, Relate to Robots
Stephan Vladimir Bugaj is a modern visionary with extensive experience in screenwriting, technical artistry and directing in animation and games. He is the Creative Director at Hanson Robotics, where…
RoboLobsters Have What It Takes to Open Up New Dimensions in AI - with Dr. Joseph Ayers
Do lobsters really have something to teach us about developing AI and robotics?
Dr. Joseph Ayers, a professor of Marine and Environmental Sciences at Northeastern University, has dedicated his resea…
United Neurons Stand Strong, Divided Neurons Fall - with Dr. Bruce MacLennan
Dr. Bruce MacLennan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee Knoxville (UTK), as well as past editor-in-chief of the I…
Can and Should We Create Conscious Machines - with Dr. Peter Boltuc
Dr. Peter Boltuc has a PhD in Philosophy and is currently a Professor at University of Illinois Springfield. His background in Moral and Political Philosophy has leveraged his research into the subj…
What Our Brains are Good at, and Bad at, and Why That Matters - with Dr. Gary Marcus
Dr. Gary Marcus is the Director of the NYU Center for Language and Music, and Professor of Psychology at New York University, and is author of well known books such as The Birth of the Mind, The …
Public Opinion Around Artificial Intelligence, is the Media Helping or Hurting? - with Dr. Joanne Pransky
Dr. Joanne Pransky received her doctorate from Tufts University in the mid 1980’s, and began championing public awareness and exposure to robotics and AI technology, playfully calling herself the “f…
We’re Cyborg’s Now, but Here’s What Cyborg’s Will Be in the Future - with Dr. Chris Hables Gray
Dr. Hables Gray graduated with a PhD in applied philosophy from UCAL Santa Cruz, and is best known for his writings on technology, war, and cyborgs (the combination of organic and inorganic, the ev…
The Work and Death - an Interview with Filmmaker Sean Blacknell
Sean Blacknell has spent the last year working on a filmed called “The Future of Work and Death,” based on interviews with futurists, economists, philosophers, and other experts - with an aim to br…
The Kind of Artificial Intelligence That Google Doesn’t Care to Build - with Dr. Roger Shank
Dr. Roger Schank received his PhD from Stanford, taught at Yale, and altogether has spent around three decades attempting to solve the big problems of artificial intelligence.
In this interview, …
Computers Do Their Own Kind of “Creative,” Not Like Ours - with MIT’s Nick Montfort
Dr. Nick Montfort doesn’t hold Shakespeare and DaVinci as the high water mark of “creativity,” nor does he believe that human creative endeavor is the only worthwhile kind.
In this interview, …
How “Ordinary” Civilian Needs Drive “Extraordinary” Biotech Advancement - with UPENN’s Jonathan Moreno
Dr. Jonathan Moreno’s book “Mind Wars” has contributed to his current reputation as one of the most prominent bioethicists in America today.
In this interview, Dr. Moreno shares his thoughts a…
Inevitably Transhuman - Human Nature’s Momentum Beyond Itself - with Neuroscientist and Philosopher Nayef Al-Rodhan
Dr. Al-Rodhan spent decades studying the human mind, and it helped him form a theory of humanity, its nature, and its technological future. Namely, that our very nature will inevitably bring us t…
Did the Evolution of the Brain… Evolve Our Morality? - Interview with Neurophilosopher Dr. Patricia Churchland
Dr. Patricia Churchland is UC President's Professor of Philosophy Emerita at the University of California, San Diego. He popular books such as “Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Moral…