I've been early to every era of AI. Let's navigate the next one together. The AI Ready Podcast with Harrison Painter: conversations and 10-minute trainings for leaders, teams, and anyone ready to go early. Harrison is a futurist, guide, mentor, and teacher. Author of "You Have Already Been Replaced by AI" and "The White-Collar Factory is Closing." Creator of The 7 Levels of AI Proficiency. From LaunchReady.ai: Consulting. Training. Building. harrisonpainter.com · launchready.ai ·…
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Your customers used to find you on Google. Now they ask ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity who to buy from, and the answer decides whether you exist. Harrison Painter sits down with Krisztián Király, who runs international partnerships at OptiMonk, a Hungarian conversion optimization platform used by more than 30,000 websites across 150+ countries. Recorded days after the EU AI Act's transparency…
Getting good at AI does not take a degree, a tech background, or a year you do not have. Kathleen deLaski has spent a decade proving it. She founded the Education Design Lab, she advises the Harvard Project on the Workforce, she teaches AI at George Mason, and she wrote the book *Who Needs College Anymore?* She joined me on the AI Ready Podcast, and her message to anyone who feels behind was…
A new AI model out of Japan, Sakana Fugu, does something we have not really seen before. Instead of answering you itself, it hires a team of the best AI models, gives each one a piece of the job, and merges their work into one answer. Harrison calls it a manager, or a conductor: you ask one question, and behind the scenes it quietly builds a team for you. In this episode, Harrison explains what…
Chris Hutchins spent more than 25 years inside some of the largest health systems in the country, including running enterprise analytics at Northwell Health, where he rebuilt the entire data warehouse. Today he advises boards, investors, and CEOs on how to deploy AI that holds up when a regulator, auditor, or attorney asks them to defend it. In this episode, Chris and Harrison Painter get into the…
Anthropic just released Claude Opus 4.8, and the headline improvement is unusual: the model is built to flag its own uncertainty and say "I'm not sure." Anthropic says it's roughly four times less likely to let a flaw pass without catching it. When a company's flagship upgrade is honesty, that tells you something about where we are. Here is the other side of it. Harrison asked Google's Gemini one…
A new paper from RAND-affiliated complexity researcher Kyle A. Kilian and Future of Life Institute risk analyst Richard Mallah, published May 20 through the Center for AI Risk Management and Alignment (CARMA), gives executives something that has been missing from enterprise AI governance until now: a six-test diagnostic for evaluating whether the AI committee you stood up actually governs, or…
On May 25, 2026, the Vatican publicly presented Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas. It is the first papal encyclical in history to address artificial intelligence directly. The Pope signed it on May 15, 2026, the 135th anniversary of Rerum Novarum, the document that founded modern Catholic Social Doctrine on labor and capital. The choice of date is the citation. This is a…
Eighty percent of manufacturing leaders say they are behind their peers on AI. The math says that is impossible. So why does almost every CEO walk into a room believing the rest of the industry has already figured this out? Bryce Carpenter , COO at Conexus Indiana , sits on top of the data that explains it. Conexus runs the Advanced Industries Council, the state's primary convening body for the…
Jay Samit has held senior roles at Sony, Universal Studios, EMI, LinkedIn, and Deloitte Digital. He has raised hundreds of millions for startups and been called on by the Pope and the President. His book "Disrupt You!" has been published in 14 languages across 140 countries. His new book, "The Second Act Advantage," comes out May 5th. In this episode, Jay explains why entrepreneurs over 50 are…
For the first time ever, AI skills are the hardest to find globally — beating engineering, IT, and everything else. ManpowerGroup's 2026 Talent Shortage Survey of 39,063 employers across 41 countries just made it official. In this episode, Harrison breaks down what the data actually says, what most coverage missed, and what leaders need to do right now. What we cover: Why 72% of employers…
