From prototype to production: Why building reliable Agentic AI is still so hard | Joana Mesquita

Send us an email! Toju Duke has worked in AI long before the hype. In this episode of Human x Intelligent, she explains why so many of us handed our judgment to AI without asking how it works, and how to take it back. We talk about automation bias, dependency and cognitive surrender; why she never goes to AI first, how to fact-check without drowning in it and what she calls AI-inflicted burnout. Her answer to the closing question: be more kind. About Toju: named one of the top leaders in AI...

Send us an email! What should you hand to AI and what should you keep for yourself? Human x Intelligent is back!! In this solo episode, I explain the delay (imagine a dinner party with the table set and an oven that refuses to cooperate) and share the question at the heart of this season: what do we keep? AI can help with drafts, summaries and the first pass of our work. But deciding what matters, what's true and what we're willing to put our name on is still ours. And sometimes a task turn...

Send us an email! The more people trusted AI on a task, the less critical thinking they said they did on it. Season 3 of Human x Intelligent starts here, with an eight-minute premiere on where your judgment still matters. I opened the season with a short solo episode, because the real conversations start next Monday. Here I look at what's happening in the market right now, what I mean by the human moat and what this season will look like, including an app I'm building called Human Plus. And I...

Send us an email! We talk a lot on this show about what AI can do. This one's about what it can quietly take, if you let it. Ricardo Luiz has spent over twenty years building products at the intersection of psychology, UX and AI, and his warning is simple: the moment you outsource what to think, you've outsourced who you are. AI is good enough and fast enough that most people won't notice the handoff happening. We get into exactly where the line sits between AI amplifying you and AI quietly m...

Send us an email! You've heard the productivity pitch. AI makes you faster. AI makes you more efficient. AI makes your work better. But what if it's also making you worse at working without it and faster than you think? In this episode of Human × Intelligent, I go deeper into a cluster of research and stories that, taken together, paint a picture we can't afford to ignore. A study from Carnegie Mellon, Oxford, MIT and UCLA found that just 10 minutes of AI assistance was enough to impair indep...