AI and the Future of Work: Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace, Business, Ethics, HR, and IT for AI Enthusiasts, Leaders and Academics

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In this special compilation episode of AI and the Future of Work, we are bringing you four conversations recorded live on the show floor at HumanX 2026. This is the second and final compilation of our three-part HumanX Live series.
Our first compilation explored how AI amplifies the human potential it can never replace. This one turns to the technical side, and to a question that gets harder the more these systems touch our lives: how do you build AI you can actually trust not to fail when it matters most? 
As technology reaches further into the moments that count (the systems that monitor our health, drive our cars, and work alongside us on the job), these four builders share how they design for accountability, safety, and harmony between people and machines.
What You'll Learn
Why reading code is no longer enough, and how observing real outcomes (not system metrics alone) is the only way to know whether AI is actually serving the people who depend on it
What "AI values" are, and why companies will soon need shared norms for how people disclose, review, and engage with work produced by agentic systems
How robots earn trust on a job site by measuring their own uncertainty, asking questions, and communicating their intentions before they act
Why the most valuable place for automation is the dirty, dull, and dangerous work humans were never meant to do, and what that means for keeping people safe
Why physical AI should be built first as a reasoning and communication model that can explain its thinking to people, rather than one that jumps straight to action
How "harness engineering" moves teams beyond prompt and context engineering, and why orchestrating several frontier models together can outperform any single one
Featured Guests
Christine Yen, CEO and Co-Founder of Honeycomb. Listen to the full conversation here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/520474/episodes/19362645 
Dr. Ali Agha, CEO and Co-Founder of FieldAI. Listen to the full conversation here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/520474/episodes/19362711 
Dr. Jaime Lien, Co-Founder & Chief Scientist of Archetype AI. Listen to the full conversation here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/520474/episodes/19363341 
XD Huang, Chief Technology Officer of Zoom. Listen to the full conversation here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/520474/episodes/19363454 

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Explore the Full HumanX 2026 Series
This episode is part of a special three-part series recorded live at HumanX 2026:
Episode 1: Special conversation with Stefan Weitz, CEO of HumanX: https://www.buzzsprout.com/520474/episodes/19210355
Episode 2: Compilation featuring the CEOs of Scribe, Operative Games, and Dataiku, and the Chief Business Officer of Zensai: https://www.buzzsprout.com/520474/episodes/19257142

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XD Huang is the CTO of Zoom, where he is leading the company's shift from hosting meetings to completing work, a vision he calls conversation to completion. He joined Zoom after 30 years at Microsoft, where he served as Azure AI CTO and a Technical Fellow and helped ship Azure OpenAI Services. A pioneer in speech recognition for four decades, he led the Microsoft team that first reached human parity in transcribing conversational speech. 
Recorded live from the floor of HumanX 2026, this lightning round explores what it takes to turn everyday conversation into finished work.
XD and host Dan Turchin dig into Zoom's federated approach to AI, the cost and accuracy tradeoffs hidden inside every model decision, and why, after a career spent solving the hardest technical problems, he believes taste and judgment are the qualities that still belong to people.
What You'll Learn
What "conversation to completion" means for the way work actually gets done
How Zoom's federated approach combines multiple frontier models into one stronger result
Why every AI decision is a tradeoff between cost and accuracy, and how to control for it
How an open ecosystem lets the same AI work across Zoom, Google, Microsoft, and in-person meetings
Why taste and judgment are the qualities XD hires for that AI cannot replace
🎙️ Part of our HumanX 2026 compilation series. Listen to the full compilation here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/520474/episodes/19363520
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Connect with XD on LinkedIn.
 
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See how leading enterprises are using agentic AI to give employees back 4–6 productive hours every week. Join PeopleReign CEO Dan Turchin for a live demo on June 25, 2026.
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Dr. Jaime Lien is the Chief Scientist and a co-founder of Archetype AI, where she is building a foundation model that turns complex sensor data into meaning people can actually act on. A signal processing scientist by training, she earned her PhD working on RF imaging from satellites and later helped develop the first radar embedded in consumer smartphones at Google, before leaving with four colleagues to start Archetype AI. 
Recorded live from the floor of HumanX 2026, this lightning round explores how AI can read the rich, non-human signals all around us and translate them for the people who rely on them.
Jaime and host Dan Turchin dig into how machines distill signal from noise, why a reasoning and communication model matters more than a straight-to-action one, and why keeping a human in the loop is a requirement, not a feature, when the stakes are physical.
What You'll Learn
How AI separates meaningful signal from noise across the sensors already around us
Why Archetype builds a reasoning and communication model, not a straight-to-action one
Why keeping a human in the loop is treated as a requirement, not an optional feature
How interpretability and explainability have to be designed in from the start, not added later
Why discovering something new about the physical world matters more than automation alone
🎙️ Part of our HumanX 2026 compilation series. Listen to the full compilation here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/520474/episodes/19363520
Resources
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Connect with Jaime on LinkedIn.
 
LIVE EVENT: 
See how leading enterprises are using agentic AI to give employees back 4–6 productive hours every week. Join PeopleReign CEO Dan Turchin for a live demo on June 25, 2026.
Register here: https://go.peoplereign.io/live-demo-how-agentic-ai-is-being-used-by-global-enterprises

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Dr. Ali Agha is the CEO and co-founder of FieldAI, where he is building general-purpose "brains" for robots across different forms, environments, and tasks. He has spent nearly two decades in AI autonomy, including years at NASA JPL and research roots at MIT, putting software and intelligence on drones, legged robots, and other platforms. 
Recorded live from the floor of HumanX 2026, this lightning round explores what it takes to bring AI safely into the physical world, where people already live and work.
Ali and host Dan Turchin dig into why reliability is the overlooked challenge of physical AI, why a robot should communicate how confident it is before it acts, and where the line sits between the tasks machines should take on and the ones that should always stay human.
What You'll Learn
Why reliability, not lab demos, is the real test for AI in the physical world
How robots that measure and share their own uncertainty earn human trust on the job site
Why the future of robotics is hundreds of specialized form factors, not one humanoid
How FieldAI targets the dirty, dull, and dangerous work to keep people out of harm's way
Where the boundary sits: the creative, strategic, and human-touch decisions that stay with people
🎙️ Part of our HumanX 2026 compilation series. Listen to the full compilation here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/520474/episodes/19363520
Resources
Subscribe to the AI & The Future of Work Newsletter.
Connect with Ali on LinkedIn.
 
LIVE EVENT: 
See how leading enterprises are using agentic AI to give employees back 4–6 productive hours every week. Join PeopleReign CEO Dan Turchin for a live demo on June 25, 2026.
Register here: https://go.peoplereign.io/live-demo-how-agentic-ai-is-being-used-by-global-enterprises

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Christine Yen is the CEO and co-founder of Honeycomb, the observability platform that helps engineering teams understand what their software is actually doing. A developer by background, she built products at Facebook before co-founding Honeycomb to bring fast, flexible observability to the rest of the world. 
Recorded live from the floor of HumanX 2026, this lightning round explores what observability means now that both humans and agents are writing, shipping, and debugging code.
Christine and host Dan Turchin dig into why the code was never the real source of truth, why "more" has become the watchword of the agentic era, and what it takes for teams to agree on what good actually looks like before they build it.
What You'll Learn
Why the code was never the real source of truth, and what to observe instead
How the software development lifecycle is collapsing as PMs, designers, and engineers become builders
Why the system that writes the code should not be the one that judges it
How defining "good" in plain English keeps quality measurable, whether people or agents build it
What responsible AI looks like in practice, from disclosure norms to protecting human attention
🎙️ Part of our HumanX 2026 compilation series. Listen to the full compilation here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/520474/episodes/19363520
Resources
Subscribe to the AI & The Future of Work Newsletter.
Connect with Christine on LinkedIn.
 
LIVE EVENT: 
See how leading enterprises are using agentic AI to give employees back 4–6 productive hours every week. Join PeopleReign CEO Dan Turchin for a live demo on June 25, 2026.
Register here: https://go.peoplereign.io/live-demo-how-agentic-ai-is-being-used-by-global-enterprises