AI and the Future of Work: Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace, Business, Ethics, HR, and IT for AI Enthusiasts, Leaders and Academics
Dan Turchin
🏆 Ranked #3, Best Tech Podcasts — Million Podcasts (2026) | Top 1% global podcast. 450+ episodes. 10M+ downloads. Host Dan Turchin, PeopleReign CEO, explores how AI is changing the workplace. He interviews thought leaders and technologists from industry and academia who share their experiences and insights about artificial intelligence and what it means to be human in the era of AI-driven automation. Learn more about PeopleReign, the system of intelligence for IT and HR employee service: http://www.peoplereign.io.
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Oct 5, 2026 • 41min
408: Cesar Carvalho, CEO of Wellhub: The Risk Isn't AI. It's How Fast You Grow.
Cesar Carvalho, co-founder and CEO of Wellhub, built a global employee wellness platform spanning fitness, therapy, mindfulness, nutrition, and sleep. He explores why well-being fuels business performance, how AI can reskill rather than replace workers, and how an AI coach personalizes care at scale. He also discusses privacy-first health technology, preventive care, and Wellhub’s dramatic pandemic pivot.
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Oct 1, 2026 • 22min
SE 30: Todd Barr, CEO at Axonis | Live from Ai4 2026
Todd Barr, CEO of Axonis and a veteran of Unix, DevOps, blockchain, and AI infrastructure, joins a live Ai4 conversation. They explore federated AI for sensitive, distributed data, offline-capable systems, auditable decisions, and governance at the data node. Barr also discusses closing the sensor-to-decision gap, human oversight at the edge, and why decisions themselves may become a valuable new data category.
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Sep 28, 2026 • 43min
407: Daniel Chait, CEO at Greenhouse: Inside the Doom Loop Where AI Screens AI-Written Resumes
Daniel Chait, co-founder and CEO of hiring platform Greenhouse, draws on two decades in technology entrepreneurship to examine AI’s impact on recruiting. He explores the doom loop of AI-written resumes and AI screening, the case against automated rejection, transparent AI interviews, homogenized applications, bias audits, and how anxious workers can turn disruption into opportunity.
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Sep 24, 2026 • 26min
SE 29: Andrew Rabinovich, former Upwork CTO | Live from Ai4 2026
Andrew Rabinovich, former Upwork CTO and longtime machine-learning and computer-vision pioneer, joins a live Ai4 conversation. He explores Upwork’s evolution into a work operating system, an agent that breaks jobs into atomic tasks, and tests of AI against real human work. They also discuss proving human identity, pairing agents with experts, and a future where AI recruits people to verify what it cannot do.
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Sep 21, 2026 • 37min
406: Mahe Bayireddi, CEO of Phenom: AI May Be Replacing Your Job Right Now, But Not the One You'll Have Next
Mahe Bayireddi, CEO and co-founder of HR technology company Phenom, explores why AI may replace jobs without determining your future career. He discusses organizational DNA, personalized hiring, cultural context in responsible AI, regional hiring guardrails, and how AI transforms frontline and specialized work. He also shares lessons from surviving 100 investor rejections.
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Sep 17, 2026 • 27min
SE 28: They Might Be Agentic, But We Have Agency: Leaders from Upwork, Axonis, and John Hancock on Where the Human Belongs | Live from Ai4 2026
Recorded live at Ai4 2026, Andrew Rabinovich, Upwork’s AI-focused CTO; Todd Barr, Axonis CEO and decision-intelligence specialist; and Kartik Sakthivel, John Hancock’s technology leader, explore where humans belong in an agentic workplace. They discuss measuring AI on real work, transparency in hiring, accountable decisions, choosing practical use cases, and how automation may reshape leadership, careers, and human agency.
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Sep 14, 2026 • 51min
405: Nick Mehta, Former CEO of Gainsight, on Agentic Overload, Machine Consciousness, and Leading with Radical Humility
Nick Mehta, former Gainsight CEO and pioneer of Customer Success, returns for a candid exploration of AI’s psychological and societal impact. They unpack agentic overload, workplace anxiety, machine consciousness, and Hofstadter’s strange loops. Mehta also considers automation’s human purpose, the uncertain job market for graduates, education’s future, and why radical humility matters in turbulent times.
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Sep 7, 2026 • 41min
404: Ilan Peleg, CEO of Lightrun, on Shifting Observability Left, and Why He Keeps AI Agents Read-Only in Production
Ilan Peleg, co-founder and CEO of Lightrun, builds AI observability tools for complex enterprise systems. He explores self-healing software, real-time line-level telemetry, and why production behavior beats synthetic tests. They discuss shifting observability left, the changing role of SREs, the durable value of runtime context, and why Lightrun keeps AI agents read-only in production.
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Aug 31, 2026 • 44min
403: Nancy Wang, CTO at 1Password, on Why Identity Is the Tech Problem of the Decade
Nancy Wang, CTO at 1Password and former AWS leader with multiple patents, explains why identity is the central tech challenge of the decade. She discusses securing credentials for humans, machines, and AI agents. Topics include confidential computing, passwordless and phishing‑resistant authentication, when agents are safe to use, and why 1Password declined to offer a public MCP server.
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Aug 24, 2026 • 48min
402: Russ Fradin, CEO of Larridin, on the AI Power User Gap and Why Change Management Is the Real Bottleneck
Russ Fradin, co-founder and CEO of Larridin, an enterprise AI measurement platform. He discusses why third-party measurement shows up when money floods a market. He explores the operational gap between power users and casual users. He argues that change management, not tech, is the real bottleneck for widescale AI adoption. He also covers leaderboards, gaming behaviors, and which roles face true automation risk.
