DISRUPTOR CONFESSIONS with John Ayers
What happens when change doesn’t knock, but kicks the door in?DISRUPTOR CONFESSIONS is where digital transformation gets personal.
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Privacy Is Already Lost. The Real Fight Is Over Manipulation | Disruptor Confessions with John Ayers (opens the original)
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"It's a heat-seeking missile that can actually try to overcome your defenses. We are not prepared for that."~ Louis B. RosenbergFor 35 years, Louis Rosenberg has built the technology now showing up on everyone's face. He constructed the first augmented reality system at NASA in 1991, holds over 300 patents, and founded Unanimous AI in 2014. He's not worried that Meta's smart glasses can record you without consent. He's worried about the earbud nobody's talking about — the one whispering in your
The Death of Shared Reality | Why Personalization Is Quietly Erasing Us | Joseph Turow (opens the original)
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"Most people have no clue about the kinds of data that companies are really taking about them, and even whether it's legal or not."~ Joseph TurowFor 50 years, Joseph Turow has studied the industry that decides what you see, what you don't see, and who you become because of it. The New York Times calls him the expert on media fragmentation. He's written 13 books and over 160 articles, and his newest, The Problem With Personalization, argues that the real threat was never that companies are watchi
The CIO Turned AI Seller Fixing Government | Disruptor Confessions with Nadia Hansen (opens the original)
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"Get your data together. That is the number one thing. Forget about what AI tool you're going to choose."~ Nadia HansenNadia Hansen spent 15 years on the buyer side of government technology, rising to CIO of Clark County before crossing over to lead AI go-to-market for the public sector at Salesforce. She's one of the few guests on this show who's actually had to say yes or no on enterprise technology serving more than two million residents, and then live with it.If you've ever wondered why it t
The Philosopher Who Debated Anthropic on What's Left When AI Takes Your Job (opens the original)
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"Look, if you win a competition that ends up annihilating the human race or creating these incredibly negative types of societies, what have you actually won in the end?" ~ Samuel Kimbriel Samuel Kimbriel recently sat across from Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark on stage at the Times Center in New York, in a conversation billed as AI and the Future of Society. Clark opened with the premise that recursive self-improvement, a machine designing its own successor, could arrive as early as 2028. Kimbr
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince: Why AI Agents Could Wipe Out Small Business | Disruptor Confessions (opens the original)
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"Another way of saying that is humans are a rounding error online going forward." ~ Matthew PrinceThis line went everywhere recently. Elon Musk posted about it. The Register, Cybernews, and outlets across tech media ran headlines off the same soundbite: humans are becoming a rounding error on the internet. Matthew Prince didn't just hand reporters a stat. He sat down for an hour with Disruptor Confessions and explained what's actually happening underneath it.Prince is co-founder and CEO of Cloud
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