Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn 955: Nested Learning, Spatial Intelligence and the AI Trends of 2026, with Sadie St. Lawrence
56 snips
Jan 6, 2026 
Sadie St. Lawrence, an AI futurist and founder of the Human Machine Collaboration Institute, joins to discuss the AI landscape. They recap predictions for 2025, revealing agentic AI's growth and its impact on everyday devices. Sadie shares five exciting forecasts for 2026, highlighting specialized models, continual learning, a return to fundamental research, spatial intelligence in robotics, and the emergence of AI operations roles. Their engaging banter adds humor as they award the year's standout moments in AI.
AI Snips
Chapters
Books
Transcript
Episode notes
Intelligence Is Becoming Radically Cheap
- Intelligence is getting radically cheaper, often by orders of magnitude year-over-year.
- Cheap intelligence changes business models and broadens who can deploy AI capabilities.
Founding HMCI And Partnering With NVIDIA
- Sadie founded the Human Machine Collaboration Institute to pursue independent research on consciousness and human–machine work.
- HMCI launched an Intelligent Revenue Reinvestment model and partnered with NVIDIA to build local research inference clusters.
Become An AI Orchestrator
- Change your workflow from being a doer to an orchestrator who coordinates AI tools and agents.
- Use multiple AI agents and co-pilots to amplify a small team's productivity.
