318 - Guest: Rana Gujral, AI Author, part 1

318 - Guest: Rana Gujral, AI Author, part 1

Author: aiandyou July 20, 2026 Duration: 35:34
This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . This week I am talking with Rana Gujral, author of the new book The AI Instinct: The Future of AI and Human Decision-Making, a deeply thoughtful, expansive, and philosophical book, like its author. Rana is CEO of Behavioral Signals, creating systems that infer intent, emotion, and deception risk from voice, deployed in application from financial services to defense. He has a TEDx talk with a million views, has keynoted at the World Government Summit and World Economic Forum, and was named Most Influential CEO by CEO Monthly. We talk about Rana’s idea of artificial general experience, whether we need AI with persistent memory and universal awareness, whether AGI needs a physical experience of the world - what we call a world model – and what video generation models reveal about that, the role of empathy, whether AGI will come through an understanding that we consciously design or through emerging from a sufficiently complex general design, whether we ourselves are stochastic parrots, and AI as augmenting vs replacing human judgement. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines! Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.        

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