<p>In this Redefining AI Spotlight, we introduce Jacob</p><p>Ward and the conversation that Lauren Hawker Zafer had with him on AI, Agency and the Architecture of Choice.</p><p>Jacob Ward is a journalist and correspondent with two decades of experience uncovering how innovation shapes society — and how it quietly shapes us.</p><p>Jacob has served as technology correspondent for <strong>NBC News, </strong>covered the consequences of emerging technologies across major broadcast platforms, and led one of the world’s most influential science publications as editor-in-chief of <em>Popular Science</em>. </p><p><br></p><p>He is the author of <em>The Loop: How Technology/AI Is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight Back</em>, a revelatory book examining how algorithmic systems influence human agency. He also founded <em>The Rip Current</em>, a media platform that investigates the hidden forces driving modern life.</p><p>The upcoming conversation explores AI not only as a technical phenomenon but as a profound human one, reshaping choice, perception, culture, and leadership. </p><p>Together, Lauren and Jacob unpack what it means for executives and operators to scale AI in a way that protects human judgment, respects cognitive limits, and strengthens organisational decision-making.</p><p>Expect a dialogue that challenges assumptions, reframes risk, and pushes leaders to consider not just what AI can do, but who we become when we use it.</p><p>#techpodcast #squirro #ai</p>

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Spotlight Twelve: A World Without Choices - Jacob Ward on AI, Agency and The Architecture of Choice

NOV 27, 20252 MIN
Redefining AI - Artificial Intelligence with Squirro

Spotlight Twelve: A World Without Choices - Jacob Ward on AI, Agency and The Architecture of Choice

NOV 27, 20252 MIN

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<p>In this Redefining AI Spotlight, we introduce Jacob</p><p>Ward and the conversation that Lauren Hawker Zafer had with him on AI, Agency and the Architecture of Choice.</p><p>Jacob Ward is a journalist and correspondent with two decades of experience uncovering how innovation shapes society — and how it quietly shapes us.</p><p>Jacob has served as technology correspondent for <strong>NBC News, </strong>covered the consequences of emerging technologies across major broadcast platforms, and led one of the world’s most influential science publications as editor-in-chief of <em>Popular Science</em>. </p><p><br></p><p>He is the author of <em>The Loop: How Technology/AI Is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight Back</em>, a revelatory book examining how algorithmic systems influence human agency. He also founded <em>The Rip Current</em>, a media platform that investigates the hidden forces driving modern life.</p><p>The upcoming conversation explores AI not only as a technical phenomenon but as a profound human one, reshaping choice, perception, culture, and leadership. </p><p>Together, Lauren and Jacob unpack what it means for executives and operators to scale AI in a way that protects human judgment, respects cognitive limits, and strengthens organisational decision-making.</p><p>Expect a dialogue that challenges assumptions, reframes risk, and pushes leaders to consider not just what AI can do, but who we become when we use it.</p><p>#techpodcast #squirro #ai</p>