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Invisible Machines podcast by UX Magazine
"The enemy of nonsense in AI" | The #1 podcast about agentic AI Join great conversations with experts about the intersections between AI, product design, technology and business. The bestselling authors of Age Of Invisible Machines are joined by other luminaries to continue the conversations that began in their book—the first bestseller about agentic AI. With a newly revised and updated Second Edition that hit the shelves in spring of 2025, Robb Wilson (CEO and Co-Founder of OneReach.ai) and…
Episodes
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineThe Shareholder Is the Member: Mona Leung on Credit Unions and the Long Bet with AI
For-profit companies keep discovering that agentic AI wants a longer bet than the quarter will allow. Mona Leung, former CFO at Alliant Credit Union and CFO…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineAI Actives Service Design
For twenty-five years, Ben Reason and Lavrans Løvlie have been trying to give services the design quality people already expect from a product. Everybody knows…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineSeth Godin—AI Has a Design Problem
Three years after The Song of Significance, Seth Godin returns to Invisible Machines on the day his new book arrives, The Knot: Problems Can Be Solved. The…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineWhat Agentic Orchestration Actually Means
The demo works. People start depending on it. Then one morning you have to explain yesterday's decision to someone who wasn't in the room. That is the moment…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineSelling to Machines with Don Scheibenreif
Three years after his first Invisible Machines visit, Don Scheibenreif returns with a sharper read on the trough: everybody knows generative AI, almost nobody…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineStructure Before Features with Evan J. Schwartz
There’s a particular kind of exhaustion that hits when you’re building with AI. You’ve got the license. You’ve got the pilot. You’ve got a chat window that…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineThe Pyramid Was Always Wrong: Matthew Barzun on Giving Away Power
Most organizations, and most conversations about AI, default to triangles: who's on top and who's below? Are we the boss of the machines or is it the other way…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineKnowing Before Doing ft. Sudhir Hasbe
Most enterprises are under board pressure to deploy AI agents. Sudhir Hasbe argues the harder shift is upstream: you cannot scale intelligence on missing…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineThe Checklist Your Deck Is Missing ft. Jeff McMillan
Everyone wants to talk about agents and models. Jeff McMillan, starts where almost nobody else does: the foundation. In this episode, Jeff McMillan, founder of…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineNuclear Fusion, No Power Lines ft Jonathan Frankle
Most organizations treat a bigger context window like a cheat code: dump every document in, skip the data work, ship. Jonathan Frankle, Chief AI Scientist at…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineWhen Agents Have Wallets, Trust Is Currency
Mastercard's central AI team receives roughly a thousand requests a year from across the organization. A few years ago, most of them were for chatbots. Today…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineNo Strategy Without Vision ft Brian Evergreen | Invisible Machines
Most AI strategies are just a buying plan: literacy workshop → vendor shortlist → adoption scoreboard. Brian Evergreen (Founder of The Future Solving Company…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineThe Confabulation Machine ft. Evan Ratliff of Shell Game | Invisible Machines Podcast
In season one of Shell Game, Evan Ratliff sent a voice AI version of himself out into the world. In season two, he launched a startup staffed entirely by AI…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineCrisis Is Your Opening | Marina Nitze | Invisible Machines
Most organizations treat crisis as a failure state. Marina Nitze sees it as a window. Nitze served as Chief Technology Officer of the Department of Veterans…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineInside The Infinity Machine ft Sebastian Mallaby
There's a book about artificial intelligence that doesn't start with Sam Altman. It doesn't start with Elon Musk. It starts in 1994, at Cambridge, where a…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineFriction Is the Feature with Jennifer Pahlka | Invisible Machines S7E5
The IRS has roughly 60,000 fax machines, and nobody can get rid of them. Not because there’s a law that says you have to use them (there almost certainly…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineAI Brings Cheap Prediction & Expensive Change ft Avi Goldfarb | Invisible Machines Podcast
Most organizations are still implementing AI as point solutions, dropping new technology into existing workflows to do the same work, just slightly better. The…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineWhat AI as Cheap Prediction Means for Enterprise ft Joshua Gans | Invisible Machines Podcast
Joshua Gans, economist and co-author of Prediction Machines (and holder of the Skoll Chair in Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Rotman School of…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineWhy Canonical Knowledge Is the Foundation for Enterprise AI ft Joe DosSantos, VP at Workday
Before enterprises can deploy AI agents that actually work, they need something most organizations don't have: a single, authoritative source of truth. Joe…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineBen Goertzel on the Decentralization of AI | Invisible Machines S7E1
Ben Goertzel, the researcher who helped popularize the terms "AGI" and “singularity”, as one of the most influential modern champions and systematizers of AGI…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineWhy AI Scaffolding Matters More than Use Cases ft Erika Flowers | Invisible Machines S6E12
We’re in a moment when organizations are approaching agentic AI backwards, chasing flashy use cases instead of building the scaffolding that makes AI agents…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX Magazine5 Predictions for Agentic AI in 2026 | Invisible Machines Podcast S6E11
As 2025 draws to a close, Robb and Josh look back on some of the conversations they had this year both on the podcast and advising major enterprises and…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineMarc Hijink, author of Focus: The ASML Way | Invisible Machines Podcast
How did a Dutch company most people haven’t heard of come to hold the fate of AI? Marc Hijink, author of Focus — The ASML Way joins Josh and Robb to explore…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineSiloed Security? Forget AI Adoption
Omar Santos is a Distinguished Engineer directing AI Security at Cisco. He’s here for a frank conversation about the realities of security in the agentic era…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineConfronting Complexity with GraphQL ft Matt DeBergalis CEO/Co-founder, Apollo GraphQL | S6E8
As the CEO and Co-founder of Apollo GraphQL, Matt DeBergalis has a lot to say about the ways that organizations can confront their inherent complexity and…
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Controlling AI Chaos with Agent Runtimes
Josh and Robb get together to share a short but deep dive into agent runtime environments. Agent runtimes are the missing piece in the many AI projects out in…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineAI Adoption is an Act of Self-Disruption ft Brian Solis, Head of Global Innovation at ServiceNow
Brian Solis, is a digital anthropologist and futurist who serves as the Head of Global Innovation at ServiceNow and is the former Head of Global Innovation at…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineHow Google & PayPal Could Rewrite Agentic Commerce | Invisible Machines S6E5
As Global Head of AI at PayPal, Prakhar Mehrotra is looking deeply at the ways agentic AI is affecting commerce — particularly timely given PayPal and Google’s…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineYou Can’t Fake “AI-First"
Cassie Kozyrkov returns for a deep dive into the decision science behind a truly AI-first approach to technology adoption. Cassie was Google’s first Chief…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineWhy Success Feels Like Failure at NVIDIA
Bryan Catanzaro was instrumental in the adoption of GPUs for powering machine learning, which has effectively turned NVIDIA from a graphics processing hardware…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineWhy is OpenAI So Obsessed with AGI? Karen Hao (NYT bestselling author of "Empire of AI")
In her instant New York Times bestseller, Empire of AI, journalist Karen Hao distills more than a decade of in-depth research into a detailed account of…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineNVIDIA: What's next for the $4T AI powerhouse?
Award-winning journalist Stephen Witt sits down with Josh and Robb to share insights from his latest book, The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineWhat the #%!@ is Vibe Coding?
Product design sage Tim Wood returns to the podcast for a conversation about the deepening integrations between experience design and AI, including a…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineAsk Us Anything: Can UX Keep Up with AI?
What is the explosion of AI solutions in the marketplace doing to pillars of experience design? On this Ask Us Anything episode of Invisible Machines, Robb and…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineThe 50/50 Rule with ex NASA Chief, Dan Goldin
As NASA’s longest-running Chief Administrator, Dan Goldin ushered in an era of “faster, better, cheaper” that prioritized safety while pushing the organization…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineCopyrightability and Generative AI - Ed Klaris, Round 2
Did the US Copyright office just declare that AI is the artist, not the tool? Does their new report raise more questions than it answers? Robb and Josh welcome…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineWhat Is Life? Round 2 with Blaise Agüera y Arcas
Blaise Agüera y Arcas, author and CTO of Technology & Society at Google, returns to the podcast to talk about his new work, What is Life?. This…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineRadically Honest AI with Dr. Anna Lembke
Anna Lembke, MD, author of the New York Times bestseller Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence, joins Robb and Josh for a discussion about…
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S4E16 How do human brains inform “thinking” machines, with Dr. Thomas Parr
Active inference is a “first principles” approach to understanding behavior and the brain, framed in terms of a single imperative to minimize free energy. The…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineS4E15 Computer Vision In Action
Despite being a massive piece of the bigger AI puzzle, computer vision doesn’t always get the recognition it deserves. Robb and Josh welcome Dr. Jason Corso…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineS4E14 AI Agent Building in Action
What’s it like to build an AI agent? Daniel Lametti, Associate Professor of Psycholinguistics at Acadia University, Visiting Fellow at the University of…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineS4E13 Are generative AI tools unlawful to use?
Robb and Josh are joined by Ed Klaris, Managing Partner at Klaris Law, Columbia Law professor, and CEO of KlarisIP, for a conversation about the fate of…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineS4E12 Designing a Future for AI Natives
Jieun Kiaer is the Professor of Korean Linguistics at Oxford and her new book, The Future of Syntax: Asian Perspectives in an AI Age, explores the complexity…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineS4E11 Digital Natives Are Now AI Immigrants
Marc Prensky is widely known for coining the terms “digital native” and “digital immigrant”—both now in the Oxford English Dictionary. In this episode, Marc…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineS4E10 Is AI the End of Companies?
With consumer use of AI technology outpacing enterprise adoption, the fear of companies using AI to get rid of employees has been flipped on its head into…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineS4E9 Digital Twins in an Agentic World
Digital twins are critical to the orchestration of AI agents, providing the context they need to create meaningful experiences quickly and efficiently. Robb…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineS4E8 Will We Ever Love Using Software?
As AI agents continue to alter the way people interface with technology, Robb and Josh were eager to speak with journalist Matt Alston about his popular…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineS4E7 Are AI Agents the End of SaaS?
As AI agents continue to remake the way we communicate with machines, what will become of SaaS companies? In this episode, Robb and Josh are joined by Janelle…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineS4E6 How Human Should AI Agents Really Be?
Sophie Bushwick is a regular contributor to Science Friday on NPR and has previously worked for Scientific American and Popular Science. As the Senior News…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineS4E5 Agentic Micro UIs IN ACTION
Micro UIs are powerful interfaces built on-the-fly by. We've talked about micro UIs a lot on this podcast, as they are a critical component of AI agents…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineS4E4 The Intelligence All Around Us
There are many lenses through which we can view the world, and that's especially true when considering the technologies associated with artificial…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineS4E3 The AGI in Organizational Agility | McKinsey & Co.'s Aaron De Smet
We're rounding out our deep dive on organizational AGI with Aaron De Smet, a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company who helped identify "The keys to…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineS4E2 Ephemeral Applications and AGI
We're entering an age when software will be written on-the-fly, by machines, to meet individual needs—an era of ephemeral applications. This will have a…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineS4E1 Organizational AGI
How do AI agents fit into a strategy for increasing a business' longevity? Imagine having a conversational operating system for your organization that was…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineBONUS EPISODE: Building an Autonomous Company with AI Agents
In April, our co-host Robb Wilson was asked to join Jess Larsen on the Innovation & Leadership podcast to discuss AI agents and taking an agentic approach to…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineS3E22 AI is a UX Term with Tanmay Bakshi, AI & Application Architect at IBM
Tanmay Bakshi is a technology wunderkind. He started coding when he was only four years old and his first iOS app was released just five years later, when he…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineS3E21 Forging Humanistic AI with Tom Gruber, Co-Founder of Siri
Journey into the innovative mind of Tom Gruber, co-founder of Siri and Chief AI Strategy Officer of Sherpa.ai. Robb and Josh welcome Tom for an enlightening…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineS3E20 AI Agents at Work with Greg Vert, Deloitte
Greg Vert, Principal and HR Transformation Leader at Deloitte, returns to Invisible Machines to discuss the ways AI agents are changing the way enterprises…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineS3E19 Behind the Curtain with Kara Swisher
Legendary tech journalist Kara Swisher joins Robb and Josh for a discussion about the early days of Silicon Valley and the shape of things to come. Her Boom…
Invisible Machines podcast by UX MagazineS3E18 AI Agents in Action
Learn about the inner workings of AI agents by watching conversational experiences in action. Annie Harshberger, Lead Experience Architect at OneReach.ai…