500+ conversations with global executives. Unfiltered. No hype. Hosted by ex-IBM Futurist Nat Schooler, Influential Visions is the show for leaders and professionals who need to understand what is actually happening in business, AI, and the future of work — and what to do about it. Every episode is a direct conversation with the people overseeing tens of billions in commerce. Leadership, strategy, AI, geopolitical shifts, digital transformation — decoded for people who need to act on what is…
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Meta just disclosed in federal court that it faces up to $1.4 trillion in penalties for building addictive algorithms. If you lead a team, this is not a tech story — it is an operating cost you are already paying. Twenty-three minutes and fifteen seconds: that is how long it takes your best people to fully recover from one interruption, according to two decades of research from UC Irvine. This…
Steven J. Manning built a $47 billion career by doing the one thing everyone around him refused to do — staying. At 21 he went to work for a tiny company heading toward insolvency. His friends were changing jobs every eighteen months. Lawyers, Stanford MBAs, people with better degrees and better options — all moving on. Steven stayed. Twenty years later he was running a major business with…
Why New AI Roles Won't Fill the Jobs We're About to Lose. US white-collar payrolls have contracted for 31 consecutive months. While tech optimists point to a projected 78 million net gain in global jobs by 2030, a staggering 95% of those new roles require a Master's degree or a Doctorate. The brutal reality? AI is creating new jobs, just not for the people whose livelihoods are being actively…
Anthropic has disabled its top-tier models for every customer on the planet. In this episode, I detail the national security directive that forced the sudden shutdown, the reality behind the zero-workaround policy, and a critical lesson in cognitive health for business leaders. Discover what a controlled study from Texas A&M and Purdue reveals about how low-quality data creates permanent reasoning…
The US government just shut down access to Anthropic's two most powerful AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, days after launch. Steven J. Manning joins Nathaniel Schooler to close the AI in Government series and ask the only question that matters: national security, or the costliest competitive takedown in tech history. Different place. Same question. Visit the shownotes here:…
Sovereign AI: The Geopolitical Weapon Being Built Right Now Influential Visions with Nat Schooler The foundation model era is over. The sovereign AI era has begun. Every serious nation on the planet is now racing to build its own AI stack — controlling the energy, the compute, the data, and the rules. Because relying on foreign AI infrastructure is no longer a tech decision. It is a national…
Global data centers now consume more electricity than the entire United Kingdom. While most boardrooms treat AI as a software decision, the world's superpowers are realizing the truth: AI is an energy decision. In this episode, we explore how the grid crisis is forcing a radical split in tech infrastructure. While Europe is engineering practical ways to capture data center waste heat to warm…
The UK is spending half a billion pounds on sovereign AI and sitting sixth in the world for real deployment. Something structural is broken — and Darrell Mann knows exactly what it is. Darrell is a former Chief Engineer of Rolls Royce and one of the world's leading systematic innovation experts. We strip away the political PR and get into why 98% of R&D spending fails, why engineers need to be…
Governments are making decisions about artificial intelligence right now. You were not consulted. But the consequences are heading for your career regardless. This series brings together four of the most credible voices on the planet — Tushar Kansal on India's national AI ambition, Nicolas Babin on what the EU AI Act actually does to working people, Darrell Mann on where human leadership becomes…
AI job losses in 2026 have passed 142,000 in tech alone. Chatbots have been directly linked to multiple deaths. The FDA has issued its first ever warning letter citing AI misuse. The data is in — and it is worse than you think. Re-released due to the audio not meeting our standards. Nat Schooler breaks down the verified facts on what AI is actually doing to people and to the workforce right now.…
