Artificial Insights: How To Do AI Right
Artificial Insights: How To Do AI Right

Artificial Insights: How To Do AI Right

Daniel Manary

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Candid conversations and real-world stories about building AI into products and businesses. Made for executives, founders, and product leaders who want to do AI right... from strategy to launch to scale.Each Friday, host Daniel Manary talks with CEOs, CTOs, CAIOs, product managers, researchers, and founders about bringing AI ideas to market, separating hype from lasting impact. He explores the How's, What's, and Why's of Artificial Intelligence and digs into how this technology is changing the landscape of modern work and life.Guests share how they’ve worked with complex, messy data, built trust into automation, and launched AI-powered products customers rely on.Whether you’re starting a new AI initiative or scaling an existing product, you’ll hear insightful, hype-free lessons you can apply to your own business.

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Welcome to Artificial Insights
DEC 26, 2025
Welcome to Artificial Insights
<p>Artificial Insights is a podcast about how AI is changing economics and work, and what happens once the technology moves beyond demos and into real organizations.</p><p>The podcast features conversations with founders, operators, and thinkers who are close to the work. People building AI products. People deploying them inside teams. And people who have already learned where AI helps and where it quietly creates problems.</p><p>Daniel started Artificial Insights to stand at the gate of businesses using AI, separating hype from lasting impact.</p><p>If you are new here, the most recent season trailer is a good place to start.</p><p><strong>🎧 Recommended Starting Points (Bonus Episodes)</strong></p><p>If you want a fast way into the kinds of conversations this show is known for, these short bonus episodes are good entry points:</p><ul><li><strong>How Is AI Anxiety Changing the World? (Jennifer Moss)</strong>: A clear look at how fear and uncertainty around AI show up inside leadership teams and shape real decisions. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://rss.com/podcasts/manaryhaus/1931059/">https://rss.com/podcasts/manaryhaus/1931059/</a></li><li><strong>Why the AI Revolution Feels Different (Mike Kirkup)</strong>: A grounded explanation of why this AI wave cuts across more roles and systems than previous tech shifts. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://rss.com/podcasts/manaryhaus/2075898/">https://rss.com/podcasts/manaryhaus/2075898/</a></li><li><strong>What Happens to Jobs When AI Scales Output 35x? (Nicolas Tobis)</strong>: A concrete, numbers-driven look at productivity jumps, role changes, and second-order effects. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://rss.com/podcasts/manaryhaus/2143792/">https://rss.com/podcasts/manaryhaus/2143792/</a> </li><li><strong>After 0→1: I Built a Product, Now What? (Alexander Millar)</strong>: A practical founder conversation about distribution, timing, and why “the product works” is not the end. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://rss.com/podcasts/manaryhaus/1992180/">https://rss.com/podcasts/manaryhaus/1992180/</a></li><li><strong>Is AI a New Medium? (Ahmad Iqbal)</strong>: A big-picture starting point on AI as a creative medium and how new formats actually emerge. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://rss.com/podcasts/manaryhaus/2315508/">https://rss.com/podcasts/manaryhaus/2315508/</a></li><li><strong>When Is the Right Time to Start a Company in AI? (Adeel Zaman)</strong>: A sharp filter for founders thinking about “why now” instead of chasing surface-level trends. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://rss.com/podcasts/manaryhaus/2238954/">https://rss.com/podcasts/manaryhaus/2238954/</a> </li></ul><p><strong>🔗 Resources &amp; Links</strong></p><ul><li>📩 Subscribe to the Artificial Insights newsletter for key takeaways: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://manary.haus/podcast/#haus">https://manary.haus/podcast/#haus</a></li><li>👉 Have a guest in mind? Reach out to Daniel at <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></li></ul>
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The Great Flip: How AI Changed the Shape of Work in 2025
DEC 19, 2025
The Great Flip: How AI Changed the Shape of Work in 2025
<p>This special Christmas and New Year bonus episode is a pause. We're looking back at 2025 and thinking about what surfaced across a year of conversations with builders, executives, philosophers, and operators working close to AI.</p><p>Across industries and roles, the same shift kept appearing. Work isn't disappearing per se... but it is changing. Flipping.</p><p>Humans are moving upstream. Away from direct execution and toward enabling, guiding, and judging systems that now do the work itself. Execution is cheaper than it has ever been. Direction, responsibility, and wisdom are not.</p><p>This bonus episode weaves together moments from Season 2 through Season 4 to explore what that flip feels like in practice, what it costs in terms of agency and meaning, and what it now requires from leaders and builders. You will hear reflections on relief, anxiety, creativity, formation, and the quiet risk of losing a sense of future self.</p><p>If this year left you excited, uneasy, or tired trying to keep up with AI, this episode is meant to help you step back and see the shape of the moment more clearly.</p><p><strong>🎧 Episodes Featured in This Recap</strong></p><p><strong>Season 2</strong></p><ul><li>Patrick Belliveau: E01 - <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://rss.com/podcasts/manaryhaus/1875537/">https://rss.com/podcasts/manaryhaus/1875537/</a></li><li>Jennifer Moss: E03 - <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://rss.com/podcasts/manaryhaus/1917877/">https://rss.com/podcasts/manaryhaus/1917877/</a></li><li>Bijan Vaez: E04 - <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://rss.com/podcasts/manaryhaus/1940948/">https://rss.com/podcasts/manaryhaus/1940948/</a></li><li>Chyngyz Dzhumanazarov: E07 - <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://rss.com/podcasts/manaryhaus/2041601/">https://rss.com/podcasts/manaryhaus/2041601/</a></li><li>Mike Kirkup: E08 - <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://rss.com/podcasts/manaryhaus/2061508/">https://rss.com/podcasts/manaryhaus/2061508/</a></li></ul><p><strong>Season 3</strong></p><ul><li>Christopher Watkin: E02 - <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://rss.com/podcasts/manaryhaus/2167772/">https://rss.com/podcasts/manaryhaus/2167772/</a></li><li>Dr. K: E03 - <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://rss.com/podcasts/manaryhaus/2178635/">https://rss.com/podcasts/manaryhaus/2178635/</a></li></ul><p><strong>Season 4</strong></p><ul><li>Josh Muller: E05 - <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://rss.com/podcasts/manaryhaus/2282863/">https://rss.com/podcasts/manaryhaus/2282863/</a></li><li>Ahmad Iqbal: E07 - <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://rss.com/podcasts/manaryhaus/2309358/">https://rss.com/podcasts/manaryhaus/2309358/</a></li><li>Alex Maier: E09 - <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://rss.com/podcasts/manaryhaus/2328700/">https://rss.com/podcasts/manaryhaus/2328700/</a></li></ul><p><strong>🎄 Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year! </strong>Thank you for listening, sharing, and building thoughtfully with us. We can't wait to see what 2026 brings!</p>
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Season 4 Wrap Up: How AI Is Making Impossible Work Practical
DEC 12, 2025
Season 4 Wrap Up: How AI Is Making Impossible Work Practical
<p>Across healthcare, nonprofits, construction, and creative tools, the same shift kept appearing. AI is moving work from impossible to practical.</p><p>This special wrap up episode closes out Season 4 by revisiting a handful of moments that captured that shift most clearly. Rather than focusing on replacement or marginal efficiency gains, AI is removing constraints around memory, time, coordination, and execution.</p><p>When those constraints fall, entirely new kinds of work become feasible.</p><p>Daniel reflects on examples from across the season, including systems that surface organizational context no one person could retain, workflows that compress months of effort into minutes, software that moves from analysis to action, and tools that lower the barrier to creation itself.</p><p>This episode is both a look back and a transition point. Season 4 showed what becomes possible when humans stop being the bottleneck. Season 5 will build on that foundation and explore where these shifts are leading next.</p><p>We can't wait to share it with you!</p><p><strong>🔑 What This Season Taught Us</strong></p><ul><li>✅ Why context is often the real constraint inside organizations</li><li>✅ How AI compresses long, fragile workflows into short, reliable ones</li><li>✅ What changes when software can act, not just inform</li><li>✅ Why feedback loops matter as AI enters the physical world</li><li>✅ How lowering barriers reshapes who gets to participate</li></ul><p><strong>🔗 Resources &amp; Links</strong></p><ul><li>🤝 Connect with Daniel on LinkedIn: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmanary/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmanary/</a></li><li>🎧 Explore past episodes of Artificial Insights: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://rss.com/podcasts/manaryhaus/">https://rss.com/podcasts/manaryhaus/</a></li><li>📩 Subscribe to the Artificial Insights newsletter for key takeaways: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://manary.haus/podcast/#haus">https://manary.haus/podcast/#haus</a></li><li>👉 Have a guest in mind? Reach out to Daniel at <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></li></ul><p>🙏 <strong>Thank you to all of our Season 4 guests</strong> for their generosity, time, and hard-earned insight.</p><p>🎧 <strong>Season 5 launches in January.</strong> Stay tuned for the next chapter!</p>
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Short: Who Should Be Writing the Rules for AI? w/ David Proulx, CAIO & Co-Founder @ HoloMD
DEC 5, 2025
Short: Who Should Be Writing the Rules for AI? w/ David Proulx, CAIO & Co-Founder @ HoloMD
<p>Regulation and innovation rarely move at the same speed. In this bonus clip, Daniel Manary and David Proulx talk about who should shape the future of AI. David argues that the people building modern systems understand both the risks and the capabilities far better than policymakers who lack technical grounding.</p><p>He contrasts Europe’s tendency to regulate early with the United States’ focus on innovation, liability, and builder responsibility. He points to the “Winning the AI Race” framework as an example of policy written by people who clearly understand the field, from guardrails to energy use to how a system should shut itself down if needed. For David, the real danger for countries like Canada and those in Europe is asphyxiating innovation before fully understanding the technology.</p><p><strong>🎧 Want the bigger picture?</strong></p><p>In the main episode, David explains how HoloMD built a clinical agent that has handled more than 100,000 mental-health conversations without hallucinating. He walks through long-term memory, safety testing with synthetic patients, and why incentives matter in healthcare AI.</p><p>Listen to the full episode: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://rss.com/podcasts/manaryhaus/2365531/">https://rss.com/podcasts/manaryhaus/2365531/</a></p><p><strong>🔗 Resources &amp; Links</strong></p><ul><li>🤝 Connect with David on LinkedIn: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidproulxoui/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidproulxoui/</a></li><li>🌐 Learn more about HoloMD: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://holomd.ai/">https://holomd.ai/</a></li><li>📩 Subscribe to the Artificial Insights newsletter for key takeaways: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://manary.haus/podcast/#haus">https://manary.haus/podcast/#haus</a></li><li>👉 Have a guest in mind? Reach out to Daniel at <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></li></ul><p><strong>🚀 Know someone thinking about AI regulation or policy? </strong>Share this clip with them.</p>
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Building AI That Doesn't Hallucinate w/ David Proulx, CAIO & Co-Founder @ HoloMD
NOV 28, 2025
Building AI That Doesn't Hallucinate w/ David Proulx, CAIO & Co-Founder @ HoloMD
<p>One of the things David Proulx is most proud of is building an AI agent that has handled more than 100,000 mental health conversations without a single hallucination.</p><p>David is the Chief AI Officer at HoloMD, where an AI agent becomes a third party in the Therapeutic Alliance. The patient wants to feel better. The psychiatrist guides their care. HoloMD adds a daily point of contact that checks in, gathers context, tracks medication adherence, and offers support between visits. Psychiatrists stay fully in charge while gaining a clearer picture of a patient's life than a single appointment can provide.</p><p>In this episode, Daniel talks with David about his path from building a social network for moms with 600,000 downloads to locking himself in a room for nine months learning AI, then co-founding HoloMD, which won the 2025 Mental Health Tech Innovator of the Year Award from the GHP Mental Health Awards. They explore what it takes to engineer safe clinical agents, how long-term memory was solved in their system, and why guardrails matter more than engagement tricks.</p><p><strong>🔑 What You’ll Learn in This Episode</strong></p><ul><li>✅ How HoloMD uses daily check-ins, mood scoring, and medication adherence tracking to strengthen the Therapeutic Alliance</li><li>✅ Why prompt, flow, and context engineering shape safety in high-stakes AI systems</li><li>✅ How HoloMD validated safety with synthetic patients, human-on-the-loop review, and a rigorously tested escalation pathway</li><li>✅ Why David sees over-regulation as a risk for countries that want to stay competitive in AI</li><li>✅ How real patients have used HoloMD to self-report to the ER and get timely care</li></ul><p><strong>🔗 Resources &amp; Links</strong></p><ul><li>🌐 Learn more about HoloMD: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://holomd.ai/">https://holomd.ai/</a></li><li>🤝 Connect with David on LinkedIn: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidproulxoui/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidproulxoui/</a></li><li>📩 Subscribe to the Artificial Insights newsletter for key takeaways: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://manary.haus/podcast/#haus">https://manary.haus/podcast/#haus</a></li><li>👉 Have a guest in mind? Reach out to Daniel at <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></li></ul><p>💬 <strong>Know someone building AI in a high-stakes domain like healthcare or public safety?</strong> Share this episode with them.</p>
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37 MIN