Shenbo Xu: Your AI Is Confident. That Doesn't Mean It's Right | Ep 1315

The Digital Executive · Sep 10, 2026 · 17m

In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Shenbo Xu, MIT PhD and co-founder of Kapnova, to make a distinction that most business leaders have heard but rarely internalized — and that costs companies millions when they get it wrong. Shenbo opens by tracing his path from MIT's AI lab through quantitative research at Point72 and foundational model training at Scale AI, explaining that each stop sharpened the same core insight: prediction tells you what will happen, but causal inference tells you what happens if you actually do something about it. Those…