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Reflect w/ Ed Fassio

Ed Fassio

84 episodes

3 days ago

The internet is no longer just pointing us to information. It is increasingly answering for us. In this episode of Reflect, Ed Fassio explores a quiet but consequential shift taking place beneath our everyday searches. As artificial intelligence transforms the internet from a collection of links into a narrative interface, organizations are no longer merely discovered. They are described. Research shows that people now rely more heavily on AI-generated summaries than on original sources, trus...

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The internet is no longer just pointing us to information. It is increasingly answering for us. In this episode of Reflect, Ed Fassio explores a quiet but consequential shift taking place beneath our everyday searches. As artificial intelligence transforms the internet from a collection of links into a narrative interface, organizations are no longer merely discovered. They are described. Research shows that people now rely more heavily on AI-generated summaries than on original sources, trus...

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Episodes (20/84)

Reflect w/ Ed Fassio

“You Are Being Described” AI, Authority, and the End of Discovery | a Reflect Podcast by Ed Fassio

The internet is no longer just pointing us to information. It is increasingly answering for us. In this episode of Reflect, Ed Fassio explores a quiet but consequential shift taking place beneath our everyday searches. As artificial intelligence transforms the internet from a collection of links into a narrative interface, organizations are no longer merely discovered. They are described. Research shows that people now rely more heavily on AI-generated summaries than on original sources, trus...

3 days ago

16 minutes

Reflect w/ Ed Fassio

“Did We Already Decide This?” How AI Is Changing Business Memory | a Reflect Podcast by Ed Fassio

Every organization believes it remembers what it decided. Most don’t. In this episode of Reflect, Ed Fassio explores a quiet but costly problem hiding inside modern work… the slow erosion of organizational memory. Meetings happen. Chats fill up. Decisions are made, or at least assumed. Weeks later, teams circle back to the same questions, not because people weren’t paying attention, but because the systems we rely on were never designed to think, only to record. This conversation unpacks a de...

3 weeks ago

15 minutes

Reflect w/ Ed Fassio

Local AI: Autonomy When Connectivity Fails | a Reflect Podcast by Ed Fassio

Are you tired of the "spinning wheel of death" every time your internet connection falters? Or maybe you’re a CTO sweating over the privacy risks of pasting sensitive company data into a cloud-based chatbot? In this episode, we disconnect from the grid and dive deep into the booming world of Local LLMs. Join us as we explore why individuals, governments, and massive biotech firms are bringing Artificial Intelligence in-house, running powerful models on their own hardware without sending a sin...

4 weeks ago

16 minutes

Reflect w/ Ed Fassio

When the Machines Read Your Mind | a Reflect Podcast by Ed Fassio

What happens when artificial intelligence starts guessing what we’re thinking… and occasionally gets it right? In this episode, we dive into MIT’s groundbreaking research on theory of mind in human-AI collaboration—the science of how machines model our beliefs, intentions and blind spots, and how we’re (sometimes unsuccessfully) trying to model theirs. From search-and-rescue robots that politely correct human teammates, to brain-wave studies showing what really happens when you let ChatGPT “h...

1 month ago

15 minutes

Reflect w/ Ed Fassio

Androids Need Love Too: The Future of Creativity, Continuity and Preserving Human Expression | a Reflect Podcast by Ed Fassio

This episode examines a creative milestone that sits at the center of one of the most compelling debates of the moment: the future of artistic identity in an age where digital interpreters can preserve and extend human work. The focus is the project “Androids Need Love Too,” an album composed over two decades and performed through a digitally constructed persona known as AgentEd. The songs originate entirely from human writing and lived experience, while the final performances are delivered t...

1 month ago

12 minutes

Reflect w/ Ed Fassio

Marketplace: The Most Overlooked Tool in Azure | a Reflect Podcast by Ed Fassio

Large enterprises spend millions on Azure every year… but most still treat cloud consumption like a runaway expense instead of a designed strategy. In this episode, we explore how Azure Marketplace, MACC alignment, and smart partner guidance can turn unpredictable spend into a clear, intentional roadmap. This isn’t about tricks or shortcuts—it’s about using the tools already in front of you to create stability, clarity, and real transformation. Most cloud conversations obsess over techn...

1 month ago

13 minutes

Reflect w/ Ed Fassio

99% Success: Architecting a Career That Compounds | a Reflect Podcast by Ed Fassio

This episode unpacks an excerpt from “Career Architecture: Thriving Beyond 2025 with AI,” a blueprint for navigating the AI-transformed job market with intention, not guesswork. Penned by AI Evangelist, Ed Fassio- the essay challenges hustle culture and introduces a structured, eight-part professional ecosystem — one that includes deep AI mastery, teaching, storytelling, building real-world applications, and anchoring within a full-time role. At its core: a commitment to data over hope, power...

2 months ago

17 minutes

Reflect w/ Ed Fassio

The Price of Yes | a Reflect Podcast by Ed Fassio

What does it really cost to say yes? In this episode, global AI strategist Ed Fassio explores the unseen price of commitment—from the boardroom to the living room at 2 a.m. He shares how hesitation isn’t doubt or fear—it’s clarity. It’s the awareness of what a yes will cost in time, energy, sleep, relationships, and personal bandwidth. Ed recounts a crisis call in the middle of the night—fixing a problem he didn’t create, earning no reward, only the expectation to do it again. That moment rev...

2 months ago

14 minutes

Reflect w/ Ed Fassio

What is Life in a Sloppy, Mirrored World? | a Reflect Podcast by Ed Fassio

In this hard-hitting, no-fluff episode, Ed Fassio dives headfirst into the weird, messy future of AI-powered selfhood—where personalized algorithms don’t just reflect our thoughts… they shape them. What happens when your AI knows your voice better than your therapist? Or worse, when it starts pulling knowledge from synthetic echoes instead of real history? Ed unpacks the dark magic of context accumulation, the danger of echo chambers disguised as helpful assistants, and what it means when “tr...

3 months ago

19 minutes

Reflect w/ Ed Fassio

The Edge of the Knife: Are AI Doom Scenarios Probably True? | a Reflect Podcast by Ed Fassio

Is Artificial Intelligence humanity’s last great invention—or just another overhyped tool? In this structured debate episode, we take listeners straight into one of the most heated debates in technology: the possibility of AI as an existential threat. Listen, as we lay out the stark warnings from the “doomed” camp—think runaway superintelligence and catastrophic risk models, backed by thinkers like Eliezer Yudkowsky and reports such as AI 2027. But we don't stop there. The counter-voices are ...

3 months ago

15 minutes

Reflect w/ Ed Fassio

The Fear of Agentic AI: Losing Control or Gaining Leverage? | a Reflect Podcast by Ed Fassio

This episode of Reflect dives into the double-edged fear surrounding the rise of agentic AI: at the enterprise level, the panic is about security, governance, and control. At the personal level, the fear is career disruption—what happens when the machine can do your job? We unpack both sides, laying out how organizations can put real guardrails around AI systems and how individuals can transform uncertainty into leverage. The conversation also tackles the looming existential question: will AI...

4 months ago

15 minutes

Reflect w/ Ed Fassio

Buddy Up: Meet the Friendly Face of Vibe Coding for Everyone | a Reflect Podcast by Ed Fassio

Today on Reflect, we step inside the world of Vibe Coding—where ideas speak human, and machines finally listen. Guiding us through this digital wonderland is Buddy, the glowing brainbot at the heart of VibeBuddyAI, a tool built for non-coders who’ve got the vision but none of the vocabulary. This isn’t another slapdash “no-code” platform or generative AI experiment that still expects you to think like a software engineer. VibeBuddyAI lives in its own universe—Vibe Coding—where the rules are c...

4 months ago

15 minutes

Reflect w/ Ed Fassio

The Dream Was Loud: A True Story of Kids, Chaos, and Chasing the Spark | a Reflect Podcast by Ed Fassio

What if the thing that reignites your soul isn’t found in a boardroom... but in a garage full of teenage chaos? In this episode, Ed Fassio recounts the wild, true story of how a high-stakes Microsoft career collided with a drum kit, a stack of amps, and four determined kids—his kids, who would become the band "Control the Chaos". What began as just another long, corporate day in Vegas transformed into a decade-long ride that stretched from suburban noise complaints to the hallowed halls...

4 months ago

42 minutes

Reflect w/ Ed Fassio

When the Cloud Picks Sides: The Digital Sovereignty Reckoning | a Reflect Podcast by Ed Fassio

What happens when your cloud provider becomes your compliance officer? In this episode of Reflect, Ed Fassio unpacks the startling real-world story of Nayara Energy—an Indian company abruptly cut off from Microsoft's cloud services, not because of any technical failure or violation, but due to a distant geopolitical entanglement. This isn't just about one company. It's about a new era of infrastructure fragility, where terms of service override sovereignty and vendors can revoke your digital ...

5 months ago

15 minutes

Reflect w/ Ed Fassio

When the Software is the AI: The Birth of Digital Minds | a Reflect Podcast by Ed Fassio

Send us a text What if software stopped being a tool—and started becoming a mind? In this provocative episode, Ed Fassio explores the transformation of artificial intelligence from predictable code to adaptive, opinionated entities. Drawing from philosophical frameworks like the computational theory of mind and Stanisław Lem’s concept of personoids, Fassio dives deep into how AI now performs intelligence, rather than just simulating it. Along the way, we examine the societal, ethical, and edu...

5 months ago

11 minutes

Reflect w/ Ed Fassio

CyberCasting and the Rise of the Elastic Workforce | a Reflect Podcast by Ed Fassio

Send us a text In this episode of Reflect, we dive into the global talent transformation reshaping the way work gets done. Journalist Jacob Gomez profiles Ed Fassio, a technologist and professor who’s building ByteBrain—a revolutionary platform reimagining how elite professionals are deployed in the age of AI. From "cybercasting" to billion-dollar outcome engineering, this is a must-hear for leaders navigating displacement, transformation, and the new labor order. We explore the Knowledge Wor...

5 months ago

20 minutes

Reflect w/ Ed Fassio

Holy Code! Does AI Need a Conscience or a Confessional? | a Reflect podcast by Ed Fassio

Send us a text In this provocative episode, Ed Fassio dives into one of the most unexpected—and urgent—moral debates of our time: the Vatican's entry into the AI ethics arena. From Pope Leo XIV’s warnings on labor, children, and digital dignity to Big Tech’s surprising alliance with spiritual authorities, we unpack why artificial intelligence is now a spiritual, philosophical, and deeply human battleground. This episode asks: What does it mean when tech CEOs stand beside bishops?Can faith-bas...

5 months ago

18 minutes

Reflect w/ Ed Fassio

Can Fairness Be Ugly? The Bias Paradox: Why “Fair AI” Falls Short | a Reflect Podcast by Ed Fassio

Send us a text We’ve been taught that fairness is beautiful. Clean. Uplifting. But what if real fairness doesn’t look like that at all? What if it’s messy—uncomfortable—maybe even a little ugly? And how should we engineer this into our future systems? Can an AI-driven world even handle it? In this episode, Ed Fassio explores the uneasy truth behind our obsession with “unbiased systems,” and asks why we flinch when fairness stops feeling good. From over-sanitized AI models to the hollow theate...

5 months ago

15 minutes

Reflect w/ Ed Fassio

The Great Unlearning: Inverse Success in the Age of AI | a Reflect podcast by Ed Fassio

Send us a text Before AI replaces your role, it’ll rewire your reality—if you’re bold enough to let it. In this raw, no-holds-barred episode of Reflect, Ed Fassio peels back the polished myths of modern success and invites you into a new frontier: one where the rebels, the misfits, and the creatively non-compliant might just be our last great hope against a template-driven world. We’re talking: Why traditional markers like age, education, and tenure are obsoleteHow AI shifts more than our too...

5 months ago

13 minutes

Reflect w/ Ed Fassio

Overclocked Minds, Bottlenecked Speech: Is AI Impacting Our Ability to Speak? | a Reflect Podcast by Ed Fassio

Send us a text What happens when your brain outruns your voice? In this deeply personal and thought-provoking episode, Ed Fassio shares a strange and revealing side effect of living in the fast lane of artificial intelligence: the growing disconnect between accelerated thinking and real-time speech. As AI tools boost cognitive speed, some users are beginning to feel a surprising new friction — struggling to articulate thoughts that come too fast for the human mouth to translate. “If AI ...

6 months ago

18 minutes