In the first episode of A Smart Perspective Series 2, new host Simone Larsson is joined by David Fearne, Co-Founder and CTO of Imitation AI, for a wide-ranging conversation about the relationship between people, knowledge and artificial intelligence.
From growing up fascinated by robots to a career shaped by data and AI, David reflects on the moment large language models moved from an intriguing technology to something that could fundamentally change how we work. But this is not a conversation about replacing people with machines. At the heart of David’s thinking is a more human ambition: helping organisations capture the judgement, experience and tacit knowledge that often sits inside people’s heads – and making it useful at scale.
Simone and David explore why so many organisations remain stuck between promising pilots and real production use. They tackle the anxieties around jobs, skills and the pace of change as AI becomes increasingly capable of using tools.
David shares his philosophy for IT leaders today: create the conditions for curiosity – encourage people to experiment responsibly, learn what AI is genuinely good for, and see it as a form of co-intelligence. These ideas are explored further in David’s upcoming book The Curiosity Economy.
Read the opening chapters: http://spr.ly/6055BGAe4L
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:10 David’s journey into AI
04:42 Imitation AI and human-AI collaboration
05:33 From AI pilots to real-world adoption
07:16 AI, jobs and the future of human work
18:36 Building AI adoption, trust and governance
32:24 Bias, ethics and responsible AI
41:03 Outro
