The Intelligence Age

Māori Data Sovereignty and the Future of AI in Aotearoa Full Show Notes: https://www.theintelligenceagepodcast.com/848 Mark Smith talks with Lee Timutimu, a Māori technology leader and entrepreneur, about AI literacy, Māori digital equity and data sovereignty. Lee reflects on building Tuhi, a Māori-created AI scribe for Health New Zealand, and the challenges of working with a government agency. They discuss sovereign AI and cloud infrastructure, the potential for community-owned digital hub...

From Copilot Adoption to Copilot Fluency Full Show Notes: https://www.theintelligenceagepodcast.com/847 Mark Smith catches up with Cadie Kneip from Microsoft, a returning guest. Her focus has moved from getting people to adopt Copilot to building Copilot fluency, so using AI becomes automatic in daily work. They cover personal Copilot habits and resistance to AI. They also cover how agents are changing everyday workflows, which Microsoft tools to use for what, and what Cadie is looking forw...

AI, Indigenous Language Sovereignty, and Decolonizing Technology Full Show Notes: https://www.theintelligenceagepodcast.com/846 In this conversation, Mark Smith speaks with Natasha MacDonald, an Inuit educator and Heritage Lab volunteer, about protecting Indigenous language and culture in the age of AI. Natasha explains how her community is using closed-loop technology, community vetting, and local control to preserve Inuktitut without handing data to big tech. We also discuss colonial la...

Microsoft AI, model routing, and the move toward portable workflows Full Show Notes: https://www.theintelligenceagepodcast.com/845 Mark Smith and Joris de Gruyter, who has spent four years deep in the Microsoft AI ecosystem, discuss where AI has become useful recently and where the rough edges remain. The conversation centers on model choice, vendor lock-in, local versus cloud inference, and how Markdown and open standards are becoming a portability layer for notes, skills, and AI workflows...

Te Reo Māori, translation, and using AI without losing human meaning Full Show Notes: https://www.theintelligenceagepodcast.com/844 Mark Smith speaks with Tane Karamaina, a senior translator working across Te Reo Māori and English, about how language, culture, and AI intersect in real-world translation work. The conversation explores why translation is never just word-for-word substitution, how AI can support but not replace human judgment, and the risk of homogenizing dialects as language t...