Artificial Insights: How To Do AI Right

One of the things David Proulx is most proud of is building an AI agent that has handled more than 100,000 mental health conversations without a single hallucination.

David is the Chief AI Officer at HoloMD, where an AI agent becomes a third party in the Therapeutic Alliance. The patient wants to feel better. The psychiatrist guides their care. HoloMD adds a daily point of contact that checks in, gathers context, tracks medication a...

Most AI conversations describe personalization as if it were new. In this bonus clip, Alex Maier explains why the real shift is not personalization itself, but how agentic systems read context and respond to a person's actual state the moment they ask a question.

Alex describes how onWater uses prompts, sentiment, language patterns, and user actions to understand experience level and intent. He compares it to the way great salespeop...

Most companies stop at “ask the bot a question”. onWater wants to go further, building an app that can answer “Should I go today?” and then quietly handle everything that comes after yes.

In this episode of Artificial Insights, Daniel talks with Alex Maier, now President of onWater. His team has been working on a simple idea with complicated stakes: help people decide where to fish or paddle, understand the real conditions on the wa...

AI is currently in a transitional moment: a new tool being used to make old kinds of content. But, what if AI can do more than just help us create the same old things faster and better?

In this bonus clip, Daniel Manary and Ahmad Iqbal step back from product and design to explore how AI is a new creative medium that could change how people make, share, and experience ideas.

Drawing on the work of Marshall McLuhan, the Canadian media ...

What if "designing well" no longer requires years of training, and the real work becomes choosing the story to tell?

In this episode of Artificial Insights, host Daniel Manary interviews Ahmad Iqbal, product lead and Head of MENAP at Canva, about what it really means to design for accessibility in the age of AI. Ahmad helped launch Canva’s first generative AI features and shares how the company's guiding principle, making creativity...

Most people talk about "data privacy" like it’s a legal checkbox. For Josh Müller, it’s part of faithful stewardship.

In this bonus episode, Josh and Daniel pick up on a single idea from their main conversation: data management as Kingdom stewardship. Josh shares how his once “off-the-cloud-at-all-costs” mindset softened as AI made it possible to do genuinely good things with data.

The hard part now isn’t the tech. It’s building the ...

What if a six-month production bottleneck became a 16-minute job?

Josh Müller, director at tech nonprofit Waha, tells Daniel how forced alignment and smart automation turned a tedious audio-editing gauntlet into a repeatable pipeline that ships Bible study content across dozens of languages. The result is more time for actual disciple-making and less time in Audacity.

They dig into privacy-first analytics in risky contexts, when to ...

When is the right time to start a company in AI? Adeel Zaman argues it comes down to breakthroughs.

In this bonus clip, Adeel explains why "why now" matters more than ever in AI. Without a recent step forward, most ideas have already been tried and blocked by the same old limits. He points to Jeff Bezos in 1995, who spotted the internet’s growth curve and built Amazon around books, an application that fit the technology’s strengths ...

What happens when AI doesn’t just live in text and screens, but begins to reason and act in the physical world?

Adeel Zaman, CTO and Co-Founder of DOZR, has spent his career moving from deep learning research to startups, scaling companies and tackling cold-start problems with machine learning. Now, backed by the HF0 residency, his focus is on "Embodied Intelligence" and how foundation models can learn physical tasks, adapt through ...

Most people aren’t natural tinkerers. That simple fact shapes how AI adoption actually plays out inside companies. It’s not enough to drop a new tool into the workflow. Deadlines and old habits keep teams from trying new approaches.

In this bonus episode, Daniel and Aydin Mirzaee, CEO of Fellow, talk about why adoption stalls when people stick to the “old way,” how organizations can carve out space to experiment, and why patience is...

Adopting AI inside an organization is rarely smooth. Most people are not natural tinkerers, and it takes more than enthusiasm to change how teams prepare, run, and follow up on meetings.

For Aydin Mirzaee, CEO and co-founder of Fellow, the turning point was realizing that AI could take the work only the most organized people were willing to do and make it accessible to everyone. He calls this an AI “chief of staff”, a system that pr...

Welcome to Artificial Insights where we talk to leaders and thinkers in AI about how to do AI right. On this podcast, we sit down every other Friday with people who build things with, and write things about, AI, and talk to them about what they do and why they do it.

We've been doing this for just over a year now, and a core pattern has emerged:

Why you build with AI matters as much as how you build with AI.

Join Daniel this season as...

From ethics to student builders, this past summer season of Artificial Insights dug into how AI shapes what it means to be human and how the next generation is already learning to use it.

Guests shared warnings about convenience, reflections on human worth, and hands-on lessons from shipping early projects.

In this recap episode, Daniel looks back at highlights from every conversation:

• 1️⃣ Sheldon Fernandez on the “instantaneous ...

What happens when students are told not to use AI, but also told they’ll need it for their careers?

For Aasha Khan, a Grade 12 student at Cameron Heights and founder of Youth Tech Labs, that tension defined her first encounters with AI. At school, the message was clear: avoid AI or risk suspension. At home, her father, a Chief AI Officer, encouraged her to explore the technology. The mixed signals left her, like many of her peers, c...

The next generation of builders isn’t just asking what AI can do, but what it should do.

For Johns Hopkins student Aleks Santari, the most striking change AI brings is the commoditisation of intelligence. When capabilities once reserved for experts become widely available, it reshapes education, work, and even how people see themselves.

Aleks is exploring that reality firsthand through three projects: Flow, a health app that adapts ...

How do you bridge worlds as different as quantum research and AI product building?

For Dvir Zagury-Grynbaum, the answer lies in curiosity. Still an undergraduate in physics at the University of Waterloo, Dvir has already worked at the Perimeter Institute, led AI design teams, and built tools that personalize decision making.

His project thersona.com learns from its users to help with everything from remembering birthdays to suggestin...

What happens when the technology you rely on gets better every day while your own capacity remains the same?

For Dr. K, theologian, bioethicist, and former U.S. intelligence officer, this is a deeply human question. With two decades in applied ethics, 14 books, and a career spanning hospital ethics, ministry, and service in the intelligence community, she brings a rare perspective on AI’s impact on human worth and agency.

In this...

What happens when the work you’ve built your identity around can be done faster, and sometimes better, by AI?

For Dr. Christopher Watkin, philosopher, theologian, and associate professor at Monash University, AI’s greatest impact may be the questions it forces us to ask: What is work for? Where do we find value when productivity is no longer scarce? And what does this moment reveal about what it means to be human?

In this episode, Da...

Before ChatGPT, Sheldon Fernandez knew what it was to wrestle with a sentence until it worked. As an AI ethics speaker, former AI CEO, and theologian, he’s seen what’s gained, and what’s lost, when the work of critical thinking is just a click away.

Now, as his children grow up in a world where AI can answer every question and affirm every feeling, he’s asking what that means for how we learn, relate, and make decisions. Sheldon bri...