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What if AI’s greatest promise isn’t helping us do more work, but helping us create better work?
On this milestone 300th episode of What’s Your Work Fit?, Executive Producer and Host Dan Smolen welcomes three innovators challenging conventional thinking about AI and the workplace:
- Emelie Hagander and Carl Hagander, co-founders of Axiom HQ and developers of AI-powered workplace solutions.
- Doug Gregory, work futurist focused on helping human and artificial intelligence work together to create better organizations.
Together, they explore a provocative question: Can AI be a launchpad for better work?
Their answer goes far beyond productivity.
Doug challenges organizations to stop bolting new technologies onto outdated workplace models and start reinventing work from the ground up.
Carl raises a fascinating question about employee agency: If you build an AI agent at work, should you be able to take its capabilities with you when you change jobs?
Emelie explains why effective AI needs more than information. It needs context, managed memory, and the ability to recognize when yesterday’s assumptions no longer apply.
The conversation also explores the dangers of AI-generated information overload, the importance of protecting proprietary data, and how intelligent systems can help people focus on what matters instead of managing endless tasks.
The central takeaway? AI shouldn’t simply make broken work faster. It should help us make work better.
Listen in to this conversation with Dan, Emelie, Carl, and Doug for a lively, thought-provoking exploration of Agentic AI, employee agency, and the future of meaningful work.
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