Better with Humans
What happens when technology reshapes how we live and work? I’m Shaun Phillips. I sit down with industry leaders and creatives navigating these changes. We explore what emerging technology means for creativity, for thinking, and for everyday life. Honest conversations about what’s happening and how people decide what matters. Let’s uncover what is better with humans.
Episodes
9 episodes
AI Data Centre Energy Costs with Leslie Coelho
AI never says "I don't know." That single fact should change how you use it. I'm joined again by my friend Leslie Coelho, back by popular demand after questions came in about local models, sustainability and where all this growth is actually head...
Brand Differentiation in the AI Era with Adam Jennings
Creativity is the magic of nothing existing and then something does. That's how Adam Jennings put it to me, and it's stuck with me since we stopped recording. Adam runs Contour, a studio that builds brands for founders who've outgrown the one t...
AI Character Consistency Tips from Glen Boswell
A dragon's claw comes down on soft ground, the weight spreads through its toes exactly the way real weight would, and an animator would have spent a week getting that right. AI did it in seconds. That's the moment that stuck with me from this o...
AI Screenwriting Advisor That Unlocks Creativity
Screenwriting is lonely. Not metaphorically. Literally just you, a document, and a feeling that something isn't working, but you can't name what.Itai Hasid has been sitting in that room for over twenty years. Writer, filmmaker, tour guid...
The Tech That Fits You (And the Tech That Doesn't)
There's a moment in this conversation where Helen describes trees growing weak and weedy inside the Eden Project's biodomes. They'd forgotten about the wind. No resistance, no strength.That image has stayed with me.We're in a stra...
9 AI Guardrails to Stay Sharp
Episode 3 - Richard LalchanThere's a study from MIT that found 83% of people who used ChatGPT to write an essay couldn't quote a single sentence from what they'd written. That stopped me cold.Richard Lalchan is back, and...
We Let Technology Replace Farm Workers. Offices Could Be Next.
Better With Humans. Episode 2. Leslie Coelho. Leslie has 40 years in software engineering. He wrote safety-critical aviation code for the Airbus A321 with no internet, no code libraries, and no AI. And he still cannot stop exp...
We Waited Too Long To Question Smartphones. Don’t Repeat It With AI
One of the most interesting conversations I have had recently was around something most of us carry every single day without really questioning it anymore.Our phones.Richard Lalchan joined me on Better With Humans and we explored ...
Let's uncover what it means to be Better with Humans - Podcast trailer
The way we create. The way we think. The way we live.And most of us have not stopped to ask whether we actually chose this.I am Shaun Phillips. And I have been sitting down with the people right in the middle of it. Industr...