In this trailer, get a sneak peek of Season 1 as our guests share a tantalizing glimpse of what’s in store. Don’t miss the first episode featuring Jeff Winter, airing on November 4, 2025.
For more bold questions and sharp insights, visit www.peopleb4machines.com. Remember, the future isn’t fully automated—it’s people-powered.
Episode Transcript
Welcome to People Before Machines.
Amanda Cupido / Jeff Win (00:05):
Robots replace humans is outdated and
inaccurate.
Amanda Cupido (00:10):
Conversations on the chaos of factory automation
from Monday morning to the verynear future.
Amanda Cupido / Jeff Winter (00:16):
We like to describe Industry 4.0
more as the era that we'reliving in right now with a
vision of what it could be.
Amanda Cupido (00:23):
Robots and cobots and automated guided vehicles
are designed to augment humancapabilities, not replace them.
Kevin Bowers / Prasad S (00:31):
Connect your equipment to the cloud.
The data you collect from thatequipment is almost more
valuable than the equipmentitself.
All repetitive tasks, whetherphysical or mental, are probably
going to be automated sooner orlater.
Amanda Cupido / Jeff Winte (00:47):
This episode, we're talking about
making sure that all this techthat we've built doesn't just
crank out efficiency, but italso actually serves people.
It is getting better and betterand better, and it's becoming
an integral part of our lives.
Amanda Cupido (01:00):
How do you make sure people don't get left
behind?
Jeff Burnstein / Prasad Sa (01:03):
Talk to your people before you make
decisions on what it is you'retrying to automate.
Stephanie Hun (01:08):
We're seeing a lot more businesses deploy teams
focused on AI.
So how are we using AI?
How do we leverage AI to dothat?
Jeff Burnstein / Prasad Saty (01:18):
AI is a long material.
Amanda Cupido / Jeff W (01:22):
Products evolve are created but not
experienced.
Kevin Bowers / Prasad (01:25):
Certainty is an illusion, right?
You need resiliency and agilityand all those types of things.
Amanda Cupido / Jeff Winte (01:30):
Pace of change has been relentless.
Machines are now suddenly ableto understand and interact with
us in a very human way,especially through human
language that we've neverexperienced before.
And it's not slowing down, it'saccelerating.
Stephanie Hun (01:46):
Leaning into presenting information that's
factual and logical.
Jeff Burnstein / Prasad S (01:50):
Let's always remember that the people
are the most important part ofyour company.
If you remain the core of whowe are, not the technology.
Technology is there to help thepeople, not the other way
around.
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