Category: Blogs
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EP47 – Your Workflow Isn’t Broken, It’s Waiting for an Upgrade
Introduction Welcome back to another episode of The Impact of AI: Explored! If you’ve followed the show for a while, you know it’s usually the two of us — Gerjon and James — trading questions back and forth with our guests. This time is a little different: James was off enjoying a well-deserved holiday, so…
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(EP46) AI Hype vs Reality: What We Learned in Conversation
When Impact of AI:Explored started in February 2024, it was simply two people on different sides of Europe having honest conversations about AI: James in Dublin and Gerjon in the Netherlands. By Episode 46, the podcast has grown into a global conversation, with listeners in 92 countries and YouTube views rising from 9,000 to 20.000…
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(EP 45) AI Isn’t a Tech Problem — It’s a Business Problem
1. Introduction In this episode of our AI podcast, we sat down with UK-based AI founder Matt from Artificia One, a full‑service AI consultancy focused on bringing real, measurable value to small and midsize businesses (SMEs). We wanted to get beyond the hype and talk honestly about what AI is actually doing in real companies…
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(EP44) The Free Ride Is Over: Inside Copilot Cowork’s New Bill
1. Introduction In this episode of our AI podcast, we (Gerjon and James) sit down with licensing and FinOps expert Rich Gibbons (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rich-gibbons-microsoft-licensing/) to unpack one of the biggest shifts we’ve seen so far in enterprise AI: Microsoft’s new Copilot CoWork consumption-based licensing model and the arrival of Microsoft Scout as an “autopilot” for AI.…
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(EP 43) AI Governance Is Broken: Who Pays When Things Go Wrong?
This episode of “Impact of AI: Explored” is a fast‑paced, honest conversation between us (Gerjon and James) and AI governance specialist Louise Humpington (https://www.linkedin.com/in/louisehumpington/) about accountability, harm, and the very human work needed to govern AI well. We explore why “strategic positioning” beats simple “progress” narratives, what a “mycelium network of governance” looks like, and…
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(EP 42) Pressing the Easy Button: How AI Habits Are Breaking Our Brains and Our Jobs
In this episode of Impact of AI: Explored, James O’Regan and Gerjon Kunst interview strategist Paul Slater about the potential cognitive decline tied to increased reliance on AI. They discuss the “reverse Flynn effect,” cognitive offloading, and the importance of maintaining critical thinking skills while effectively using AI as a supportive tool.
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(EP 41) AI Governance Isn’t New: How To Stop Panicking and Start Doing the Work
This episode of Impact of AI is all about taking the fear and mystery out of AI governance and turning it into something practical, human, and very doable for real organizations. In this blog we, James and Gerjon, unpack our conversation with Rob Fawcett about regulation, risk, and why most companies already have more of…
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(EP 40) Is Your AI Just ‘Slop’ – Or a Real Second Brain?
1. Introduction In this episode of Impact of AI: Explored, we (James O’Regan and Gerjon Kunst) sat down with Citrix’s Dave Brear to talk about something that sits right at the intersection of productivity, AI, and knowledge work: the AI-powered second brain. What started as a conversation about note‑taking and personal knowledge management quickly turned…
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(EP 39) Hello AI Summit 2026 – The Future of Agentic AI in Football and Beyond
Here’s a first draft of the blogpost in your and James’s voice, using your structure and pulling in missing context about Joe. 1. Introduction In this episode, we sat down with Joe Darkins, CTO of Burnley Football Club, live at the Hello AI Collective Summit at the Emirates Stadium in London.We wanted to move beyond…
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(EP 38) Hello AI Summit 2026 – Amplify, Don’t Replace: The Human Side of AI Adoption
Introduction In this episode of our “Impact of AI” podcast, we sat down at the Hello AI Collective Summit in London’s Emirates Stadium with coach and trainer Stephen Gresty to talk about the human side of AI adoption. Stephen comes from a background in applied positive psychology rather than traditional tech, which made for a…