Influential Visions
500+ conversations with global executives. Unfiltered. No hype. Hosted by ex-IBM Futurist Nat Schooler, Influential Visions is the show for leaders and professionals who need to understand what is actually happening in business, AI, and the future of work — and what to do about it. Every episode is a direct conversation with the people overseeing tens of billions in commerce. Leadership, strategy, AI, geopolitical shifts, digital transformation — decoded for people who need to act on what is coming. Full, uncut, ad-free episodes and the 500+ archive are available via MONDAY INFLUENCER®: www.mondayinfluencer.com
Episodes
Breaking news: AI just got a body. In this episode of Influential Visions, host Nat Schooler sits down with AI Robotics expert and EU Digital Ambassador Nicolas Babin to explore the rapid transition from Large Language Models (software/text) to Physical AI and Embodied Robotics (hardware/machines).
From the record-breaking $16 Billion venture capital surge in Q1 to China’s World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, machines ...
The traditional 9-to-5 is disappearing, and with AI automating up to 70% of daily work activities, simply protecting your current role is no longer a viable strategy. In this episode, we break down a step-by-step framework showing you exactly how to prompt AI to design your next promotion and build massive leverage within your company.
In this episode, you will learn:
The Death of the 9-to-5: Why corporate lo...
Are your encrypted messages actually private, or is mass surveillance becoming the new normal?
In this episode, host Nat Schooler is joined by business strategist Steven J. Manning to dissect EU Chat Control 2.0—the controversial legislative proposal that would force messaging platforms to use client-side scanning directly on smartphones, effectively breaking end-to-end encryption (E2EE) before messages even leave your d...
Meta just disclosed in federal court that it faces up to $1.4 trillion in penalties for building addictive algorithms. If you lead a team, this is not a tech story — it is an operating cost you are already paying. Twenty-three minutes and fifteen seconds: that is how long it takes your best people to fully recover from one interruption, according to two decades of research from UC Irvine. This episode breaks down the co...
Steven J. Manning built a $47 billion career by doing the one thing everyone around him refused to do — staying.
At 21 he went to work for a tiny company heading toward insolvency. His friends were changing jobs every eighteen months. Lawyers, Stanford MBAs, people with better degrees and better options — all moving on. Steven stayed.
Twenty years later he was running a major business with thousands of people and mo...
Why New AI Roles Won't Fill the Jobs We're About to Lose.
US white-collar payrolls have contracted for 31 consecutive months. While tech optimists point to a projected 78 million net gain in global jobs by 2030, a staggering 95% of those new roles require a Master's degree or a Doctorate. The brutal reality? AI is creating new jobs, just not for the people whose livelihoods are being actively disrupted.
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Anthropic has disabled its top-tier models for every customer on the planet. In this episode, I detail the national security directive that forced the sudden shutdown, the reality behind the zero-workaround policy, and a critical lesson in cognitive health for business leaders.
Discover what a controlled study from Texas A&M and Purdue reveals about how low-quality data creates permanent reasoning deficits—both in la...
The US government just shut down access to Anthropic's two most powerful AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, days after launch. Steven J. Manning joins Nathaniel Schooler to close the AI in Government series and ask the only question that matters: national security, or the costliest competitive takedown in tech history. Different place. Same question.
Visit the shownotes here: https://www.natschooler.com/the-trump-administration-...
Sovereign AI: The Geopolitical Weapon Being Built Right Now
Influential Visions with Nat Schooler
The foundation model era is over. The sovereign AI era has begun.
Every serious nation on the planet is now racing to build its own AI stack — controlling the energy, the compute, the data, and the rules. Because relying on foreign AI infrastructure is no longer a tech decision. It is a national security decisi...
Global data centers now consume more electricity than the entire United Kingdom. While most boardrooms treat AI as a software decision, the world's superpowers are realizing the truth: AI is an energy decision.
In this episode, we explore how the grid crisis is forcing a radical split in tech infrastructure. While Europe is engineering practical ways to capture data center waste heat to warm thousands of homes, China i...
The UK is spending half a billion pounds on sovereign AI and sitting sixth in the world for real deployment. Something structural is broken — and Darrell Mann knows exactly what it is.
Darrell is a former Chief Engineer of Rolls Royce and one of the world's leading systematic innovation experts. We strip away the political PR and get into why 98% of R&D spending fails, why engineers need to be running state infrastru...
Governments are making decisions about artificial intelligence right now.
You were not consulted. But the consequences are heading for your career regardless.
This series brings together four of the most credible voices on the planet — Tushar Kansal on India's national AI ambition, Nicolas Babin on what the EU AI Act actually does to working people, Darrell Mann on where human leadership becomes irreplaceable, and Steven ...
AI job losses in 2026 have passed 142,000 in tech alone. Chatbots have been directly linked to multiple deaths. The FDA has issued its first ever warning letter citing AI misuse. The data is in — and it is worse than you think.
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Nat Schooler breaks down the verified facts on what AI is actually doing to people and to the workforce right now. No hype, no speculation. R...
The world's biggest AI conversation is happening without India in the room. That is a mistake.
One in eight of ChatGPT's weekly users sits in India. Eighty per cent of Indian professionals use AI at work — against fifty per cent in the US. And the country is quietly building its own sovereign language models, frugal AI tools, and healthcare diagnostics at a scale the West has not begun to absorb.
Tushar Kansal — fou...
Sovereign AI is the race for every nation to control its own artificial intelligence — and the US versus China money war just exposed why spending more is not winning.
Fresh data from the 2026 Stanford AI Index reveals a staggering reality: the United States poured $285.9 billion of private AI money into the race in 2025, compared to China’s $12.4 billion. That is a massive 23-to-1 spending gap.
Yet, despite the US ...
Who Really Controls Your AI?
Two of the biggest moments in AI this year happened in the same fortnight and almost nobody noticed. Five companies quietly agreed to let the US government look at their newest models before anyone else. Days later, the President walked away from the order that would have made it mandatory.
So we are left with a halfway house. Government has a foot in the door. The door has not been locked o...
"Governments Are Running on AI at Scale" Guest: Nicolas Babin, EU Deputy Mayor & Digital Ambassador
What if I told you that your government is running on AI systems that operate at speeds humans cannot match? Not chatbots. Not theoretical. Real systems detecting fraud across millions of accounts, predicting security threats before they happen, accelerating healthcare innovation, and shaping policy before votes occu...
Every country is running a different AI experiment on itself right now. Most people only see one of them.
For five years, the AI story had four postcodes — San Francisco, Brussels, Beijing, and maybe London on a slow news day. That era just ended.
In this opening episode of Series 14, Nat Schooler — ex-IBM futurist and host of Influential Visions — maps the new global AI landscape through three lenses: power, ...
In this episode, I sit down with Shayna Davis, founder of the Executive Signals Group, to break down why executive presence needs a complete reframe — and what to build instead: external influence.
Most leaders are told they need "executive presence" — but nobody can define what that actually means.
In this episode, host Nat Schooler sits down with Shayna Davis, founder of the Executive Signals Group and former Whit...
Stop signing your own resignation letter by staying comfortable.. In the Great Detachment of 2026, the only "job for life" is the one you architect yourself. We aren't just surviving the AI Revolution; we are leading the Creative Revolution by leveraging the one thing AI cannot replicate: Your unique humanity.
Guest Bio: Nicolas Babin is an AI expert, EU Digital Ambassador, and former Head of Sony Europe Robotics. He a...
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