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We Are the Machines

Dr. Deitra Sawh, Ph.D.

Technology

Frequency: 1 episode/7d. Total Eps: 16

AI is already in every boardroom, every strategy meeting, and present at every dinner party conversation nowadays. And most leaders are nodding along hoping no one asks THEM to go deeper. Dr. Deitra Sawh, Ph.D. breaks down exactly how AI thinks by comparing it to how you already think. No fancy tech jargon. Just the kind of understanding that makes you the most informed person in the room. We Are the Machines is the podcast for business leaders and professionals who want to understand artificial intelligence, large language models, and the real impact of AI on work and decision-making.

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🇨🇦 Canada - Technology
25/06/2026
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23/03/2026
#92

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Episode 16: Elderly

Season 1 · Episode 16

Tuesday, June 23, 2026 • Duration 06:42

Who is capturing what your retiring staff actually know? Has the job changed since they were hired? And is closing every in-person location worth what it costs the people who still show up? My neighbour Tom used to register for fall volleyball at a bar, a glass of wine in hand, catching up with his teammates while he paid his fees. Now it is a web form. No wine, no friends, no reason to show up. My senior tennis partner of 25 years could not navigate the new registration site and lost her spot on the court. The generation that lived through the first televisions, the first computers, and the first phones is the one getting pushed out of its own social life as everything moves online.

AI does give our elders a lot back: video calls with the grandkids, spoken directions anywhere they go, even new drugs that extend their lives. What it cannot give back is the room full of other people.

This episode connects that to a problem sitting in your business right now. A generation of your most experienced people is about to retire, the knowledge of how things actually work is about to walk out the door, and you have to decide whether it is really time to close every in-person location.

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Episode 15: The automation of writing is almost here

Season 1 · Episode 15

Tuesday, June 16, 2026 • Duration 07:34

Why are executives struggling to trust the work of their newest staff? The internet took our memory years ago. Now generative AI is going after our ability to think, and the words it hands us are like grocery-store raspberries: perfectly shaped, no sweetness.

This episode of We Are the Machines, exposes the hidden cost of handing corporate thinking to algorithms, and why automating writing quietly dulls the people who do it. You will get practical ways to pressure-test AI writing, including a falsification test that makes the machine poke holes in its own work.

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Episode 14: AI Harnessing

Season 1 · Episode 17

Tuesday, June 9, 2026 • Duration 07:05

When knowledge becomes free, what human skills become scarce? If Microsoft saw runaway token budgets blow up, what is to come of the rest of us?

As generative AI moves from experimental novelty to core enterprise infrastructure, token budgets are becoming a massive economic wall.

This episode of We Are the Machines clarifies the structural differences between: AI Governance, AI Guardrails, and AI Harnessing. We also tackle a deeper organizational issue: why software developers are being unfairly scapegoated for AI governance failures.

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Episode 13: Find out if your job survives

Season 1 · Episode 13

Tuesday, June 2, 2026 • Duration 08:20

At the highway-side On the Go in Ontario Deitra found four cashiers had become one. The other three were replaced by long touch-screens that nobody could figure out, so the staff who were left were spending their time teaching customers how to order food themselves.

That's the front-line worker dilemma. The people who are being replaced are doing the training. The customers who want a human are being walked through the screens by the human they wanted.

Episode 13 is about who's actually at risk, who isn't, and the question that will define if a machine can replace you.

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Episode 12: The tangibility of money

Season 1 · Episode 12

Tuesday, May 26, 2026 • Duration 08:29

The Invisible Friction of Digital Wealth: Is Digital Banking Unraveling Your Financial Discipline?

When you were growing up, finding a few loose coins in the garage to buy candy at the corner store was a tangible, sensory experience. You clutched the coins tightly, felt their smooth surfaces, and physically calculated their weight against the value of a Slushie.

Today, that entire human experience of tangibility has vanished into a seamless "tap".

In this episode of We Are the Machines, Dr. Sawh reveals how algorithms are quietly substituting human financial intuition for numerical automation. Explore the high corporate stakes of automated decision-making, the rise of algorithmic robo-advisors, and the hidden psychological costs of the upcoming "Real-Time Rail" payment backbone and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs).

Are you actively managing your digital wealth, or are you passively letting the machines condition your wallet? Tune in to learn the critical questions leaders must ask about financial automation, digital transformation, and consumer fintech.

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Episode 11: Evolution

Season 1 · Episode 11

Tuesday, May 19, 2026 • Duration 06:26

Is your smartphone changing your DNA?

Nowadays we are paying the 10-Pound Penalty, living The "Heads Down" Culture and developing a claw.

On this episode of We Are the Machines, we explore the physical impacts of a digitized world on the human experience. We look at how our sedentary, screen-focused lifestyles are reshaping our musculoskeletal structure and even our eyelids.

Join me to hear how evolution is catching up to our tech habits and what leaders can do about it.

In the corporate world, we talk a lot about digital transformation, but we rarely discuss the physical transformation happening to our workforce. The reality is that our biological structures weren't built for the pressure of the modern workstation.

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Episode 10: UI_UX

Season 1 · Episode 10

Tuesday, May 12, 2026 • Duration 07:10

Is your multi-million dollar tech stack making your experts look like amateurs?

If your senior team relies on junior staff to navigate internal systems, your digital tools have become a friction point rather than an accelerator. When a brilliant strategist or senior leader is stymied by circuitous software menus, the organization loses the very expertise it is paying for.

Poor design can turn your high-performing experts into shadows of themselves.

On this episode of We Are the Machines you will learn from AI transparency to the psychology of icon design, learn why your amazing technology is useless if your humans can't navigate it. Discover how to keep your team in the loop and stop building machines that train humans to act like machines.

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Episode 09: The Wonderful World of Work

Season 1 · Episode 9

Tuesday, May 5, 2026 • Duration 07:54

The head of R&D at a global tech company recently said he wants his team to "show off about being lazy." Not lazy as in long lunches. Lazy as in no thinking, no reading, no comprehension. If your team is doing the same with Copilot, what skills will they have in five years?

In Episode 9, Dr. Deitra Sawh works through the question executives are not asking. Your entry-level people use AI for the documents, the summaries, the emails. They get promoted on the strength of "the job is done." Five years later they are senior managers who have lots of ideas on how to make machines do the work, and no idea how to do any of the work themselves.

Are you building a company for humans, by humans? Or are you just getting the job done?

Listen to the full episode now to sound like an AI rockstar by the end of each episode.

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Episode 08: Reinforcement Learning

Season 1 · Episode 8

Tuesday, April 28, 2026 • Duration 08:04

Are you prompting the AI, or is the AI prompting you?

We like to think of ourselves as the masters of the "State Space," but Reinforcement Learning (RL) is working on us every time we pick up our phones.

Whether it's the dopamine hit of a "like" or the instant gratification of an LLM-generated answer, we have been trained to seek the reward before we even process the question. In this episode of We Are The Machines, I break down how the same logic used to optimize stock portfolios is being used to optimize... us.

Tune in to learn how to reclaim your cognition by creating intentional space between yourself and the machine.

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Episode 07: Square peg round hole problems

Season 1 · Episode 7

Tuesday, April 21, 2026 • Duration 08:02

Imagine walking into your next performance review only to realize your value has been reduced to a single metric: How much did you talk to the machine today? This isn't science fiction. It’s the new corporate reality.

In this episode, we pull back the curtain on the "Square Peg, Round Hole" crisis facing modern HR departments. When talent is forced to prioritize "machine interaction" just to hit a quota, the very fabric of organizational culture begins to tear.

The corporations might ask you to abdicate the ability to think, but that doesn't mean you have to abdicate your responsibility for how you live.

Are you leading an AI transformation, or just managing a checkbox exercise?

Listen to episode 7 and find out

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