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S3 E5: Keeping the Aircraft the Right Way Up with Jonathan Burnip (Marshall) (opens the original)
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Failure is not an option when aircraft need to stay the right way up. So how does the most safety-obsessed industry on earth adopt AI? Carefully. And more ambitiously than you'd think. Jonathan Burnip is Head of Advisory Services at Marshall, the Cambridge aerospace and defence firm, where he's spent his whole career from placement student to CTO to advisory. His argument: the regulators aren't the blocker, the data isn't what outsiders assume, and the real line to hold is that AI mustaid decisi
The Hard Part: Who Marked Zuckerberg's Homework? Three Questions Every AI Buyer Should Ask (opens the original)
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Mark Zuckerberg recently published a lengthy vision for a future of "superintelligence in every pocket". But before business leaders accept that vision, there's a more important question to ask: Who marked the homework? In this solo episode, I take a sceptical look at one of the most influential AI manifestos of the year and explore what happens when technology vendors define the problem, propose the solution, and assess their own success. I agree with some of Zuckerberg's thinking, particularly
S3 E4: What If Your Plant Could Think? With Andy Webster (KBR) (opens the original)
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Engineers can't sign their name to a guess. That's why generative AI stalled at the door of the control room. This episode is about what got through instead. Andy Webster is Senior Director for Digital and AI at KBR's Sustainable Technology Solutions division. His team spent the last three years going from an organisation curious about everything to one focused on a handful of bets: culling projects on a six-week clock, then backing physics-based AI hard enough to invest in it. His argument: lan
The Hard Part: Go into a darkened room and ask yourself 2 questions about AI (opens the original)
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Everyone tells you to start your AI journey with a use case. I'm going to tell you to start with a notebook, a coffee, and a darkened room. A solo episode: the two questions I give leaders to kick-start their AI thinking. No tools, no vendors, no pilots. Twenty minutes of honest thinking before you spend a penny. We get into: Question one: what's getting in the way right now — for you, your peers, and your team? Be honest. That list is your leadership to-do list. Why "no use case is too small" i
S3 E3: The Power of No, with Graham Openshaw (Assystem) (opens the original)
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Nuclear is about as unforgiving as engineering gets. Safety critical. Heavily regulated. So why does Graham Openshaw think it should be innovating faster, not slower? Graham is Operations Director, Digital at Assystem, the second-largest independent nuclear consultancy in the world. His argument: proper governance and sponsorship aren't the brakes. Done well, they're what lets you manage riskand move faster. We get into: The myth that people resist change, and why the frustration sits in how org
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