AI, Software, & Wetware Interview Series

Overview and an up-to-date set of links to all published and pending interviews (audio and written) for the AI, Software, & Wetware series

About the “AI, Software, & Wetware” (AISW) Interview Series

Quick links:

• Call for Participation

• About These Interviews

• Published Interviews - 2024

• Published Interviews - 2025

  • Interviews completed & in production

  • Interviews scheduled & in progress

• Publishing Schedule

• Credits

• References

Call for Participation

AI is so pervasive nowadays, everyone’s entitled to an opinion about AI and has stories to tell. For examples, see:

"But I don't use AI": 8 Sets of Examples of Everyday AI, Everywhere

Do YOU have an opinion about the benefits and harms of AI tools, or a story to tell about using AI (or having AI use your info and content)? See the guest FAQ, and let’s chat about you being a featured guest in a future interview! Or if you know someone whose voice should be heard about AI, please share the FAQ with them. Technical backgrounds or expertise are not required.

AISW Interview Guest FAQ

Note: For purposes of these interviews, “AI” encompasses traditional data analytics, statistical methods, and machine learning as well as generative AI and other non-generative AI. If you’re not sure if an experience is relevant, see our AI Glossary or ask me.

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About These Interviews

Our AI, Software, & Wetware (AISW) interview series was launched on August 1, 2024. This page is updated with links whenever new interview posts are published.

The series goal is to provide a reality check on how AI affects people worldwide: how they use AI in personal and professional contexts, whether they have any ethical concerns using AI, and how they feel about AI companies using their data and content. For an overview on AI ethics, see this article:

Top 5 things to know about AI ethics

These interviews aim to include a diverse set of people — of all genders, from many locations worldwide, and across a broad range of roles, occupations, and industries. Here’s a zoomable map of the geographic locations for interview guests to date, in progress, and planned:

To be notified automatically in the Substack app or via email when new interview posts are published, subscribe (FREE):

Quick note for those who prefer listening to reading: Substack now supports read-aloud natively in the Substack app. Give it a try on the text-only interviews.

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2024 Interviews - Season One

• 2024-08-01: 🗣️ 🇺🇸 AISW#001

  Kathy Gerstorff
  (
  Indie Author Insider
  ), USA-based (Indiana) guerilla marketing coach ‘WriterKat’

• 2024-08-05: 📜 🇺🇸 AISW#002 Anonymous1, USA-based (Pittsburgh, PA) 2nd year medical student

• 2024-08-08: 🗣️ 🇺🇸 AISW#003

  Stella Fosse
  (
  Creative Crones with Stella Fosse
  ), USA-based (North Carolina) multi-book author (fiction and non-fiction)

• 2024-08-12: 📜 🇺🇸 AISW#004 Anonymous2, USA-based (NYC) creative strategist

• 2024-08-15: 🗣️ 🇩🇪 AISW#005 Ralf Gitzel, Germany-based industrial software researcher

• 2024-08-19: 📜 🇺🇸 AISW#006

  Jermaine Allgood
  , USA-based (Washington) software technologist and creative

• 2024-08-22: 🗣️ 🇮🇹 AISW#007 Angeline Corvaglia, Italy-based founder of Data Girl And Friends

• 2024-08-26: 📜 🇨🇦 AISW#008 Yanmeng Ba, Canada-based (Ottawa) high-tech product manager

• 2024-08-29: 🗣 🇺🇸 AISW#009️ Thalia Barry, USA-based (Colorado) Advisory UX (user experience) researcher and independent artist

• 2024-09-02: 📜 🇸🇪 AISW#010 Sofia Zätterström, Sweden-based strategic tech executive in tech & education

• 2024-09-05: 🗣️ 🇮🇹 AISW#011

  Riccardo Vocca
  (
  The Intelligent Friend
  ), Italy-based marketing research assistant

• 2024-09-09:📜 🇺🇸 AISW#012

  Amanda Rose Fadely
  , USA-based (Florida) aerospace professional, investor, and author (writing on
  Read the Instructions
  , and a member of the SmallStack team)

• 2024-09-12: 🗣 ️🇺🇸 AISW#013

  Gilda Alvarez
  , USA-based (Florida) founder and CEO of ‘Latinas in Data’

• 2024-09-16: 📜 🇮🇳 AISW#014 Senthil Chidambaram, India-based (Chennai) graph data professional and “EI4AI” evangelist (

  SENTHIL C
  on Substack) 

• 2024-09-19: 🗣️ 🇺🇸 AISW#015 Tracy Bannon, USA-based (Pennsylvania) ‘real technologist’

• 2024-09-23: 📜 🇺🇸 AISW#016 Dr. Mary Marcel, USA-based (Massachusetts) college professor teaching business ethics

• 2024-09-26: 🗣 🇩🇰 AISW#017 Steph Fuccio, Denmark-based media consultant and author of

  Chatty and Me: My ChatGPT Exploration
  on Substack

• 2024-09-30: 📜 🇺🇸 AISW#018 Anonymous3, USA-based engineering bid manager

• 2024-10-03: 🗣 ️🇮🇹 AISW#019 Roberto Becchini, Italy-based software architect and artist

• 2024-10-07: 📜 🇺🇸 AISW#020 Anonymous4, USA-based (Philadelphia, PA) psychotherapist and mother

• 2024-10-10: 🗣 🇨🇦 AISW#021

  Quentin Vandermerwe
  (
  Rhythms of Reason
  ), Canada-based (British Columbia) software product manager

• 2024-10-14: 📜 🇮🇳 AISW#022 Anonymous5, India-based (Bengaluru) cloud software developer

• 2024-10-17: 🗣 🇨🇦 AISW#023 Rola Shaar, Canada-based (Ottawa) software R&D director

• 2024-10-21: 📜 🇨🇷 AISW#024 Anonymous6, Costa Rica-based embedded software developer

• 2024-10-24: 🗣 ️🇨🇦 AISW#025

  Kris Holland
  (
  Kris' Substack
  ), Canada-based (Ottawa) polymath and technical artist

• 2024-10-28: 📜 🇮🇳 AISW#026 Prateeti Mohapatra, India-based (Bengaluru) senior research engineer and manager

• 2024-10-31: 🗣 🇺🇸 ️AISW#027 Dr. Julie Rennecker, USA-based (Ohio) healthcare team advisor & coach

• 2024-11-04: 📜 🇨🇦 AISW#028 Anonymous7, Canada-based (Ottawa) computer science student

• 2024-11-07: 🗣 ️🇨🇷 AISW#029, Heiner Leiva, Costa Rica-based AI and data architect

• 2024-11-14: 📜 🇮🇳 AISW#030

  Lakshmi Veeramani
  , India-based AI architect and leader

• 2024-11-21: 🗣️ 🇺🇸 AISW#031 Melanie Smiley, USA-based (North Carolina) creative director and graphic designer

• 2024-11-28: 📜 🇨🇷 AISW#032 Lis Sandi-Diaz, Costa Rica-based program manager

• 2024-12-05: 🗣 ️🇺🇸 AISW#033

  Chris Dalla Riva
  (
  Can't Get Much Higher
  ), USA-based (New Jersey) musician and data analyst

• 2024-12-12: 🗣 🇨🇷 AISW#034 Anyela Vega, Costa Rica-based engineer and entrepreneur

• 2024-12-19: 🗣 🇺🇸 AISW#035

  Paul Chaney
  (
  AI Marketing Ethics Digest
  ), USA-based (Louisiana) expert in AI marketing ethics

• 2024-12-26: 📜️ 🇺🇸 AISW#036 Anonymous8, USA-based (Texas) business development and presales leader in automotive

2025 Interviews - Season Two

• 2025-01-02: 📜 🇮🇳 ️AISW#037 Arun Mozhi Maruthamuthu, India-based (Bengaluru) senior DevOps engineer

• 2025-01-09: 🗣 🇺🇸 AISW#038 Evan Miller, USA-based (Pennsylvania) Human Resources and Talent Acquisition leader

• 2025-01-16: 🗣 ️🇲🇾 AISW#039 Dr. Kristen Parrish, Malaysia-based (Kuala Lumpur) engineer and technical storyteller

• 2025-01-20: 📜🇹🇷 AISW #040

  Aysu Kececi
  (
  Road to Earth 2.0
  ), Turkey-based (Istanbul) sustainability business development consultant (bonus interview)

• 2025-01-23: 🗣 🇺🇸 AISW#041 Kimberly Andrikaitis, USA-based (North Carolina) agile coach and author

• 2025-01-27: 🗣 🇮🇪 AISW#042

  Carey Lening
  (
  Privacat Insights
  ), Ireland-based (Dublin) data privacy expert (bonus interview, in honor of Data Protection Day)

• 2025-01-30: 🗣 🇺🇸 AISW#043 Annemarie Penny, USA-based (California) entrepreneur, founder, advisor, and investor

• 2025-02-03: 📜🇵🇭 AISW #044

  James Presbitero
  (
  Write10x
  ), Philippines-based writer and strategist (bonus interview)

• 2025-02-06: 🗣 🇺🇸 AISW#045

  Devansh
  (
  Artificial Intelligence Made Simple
  ),

  USA-based (New York City) tech researcher and writer

• 2025-02-13: 🗣🇦🇹 ️AISW#046

  Ronke Babajide
  (
  A Better World Tomorrow
  ) - Austria-based (Vienna) cybersecurity leader

• 2025-02-20: 🗣️🇺🇸 AISW#047 Phil Pallen, USA-based (Florida) branding and marketing strategist

• 2025-02-27: 🗣️🇬🇧 AISW#048

  Marisa Guthrie
  (
  The Reluctant Capitalist
  ), UK-based (England) business coach to solopreneurs

• 2025-03-06: 🗣🇺🇸 AISW#049

  Blair Glaser
  (
  The Human Intelligence (HI) Stack
  ), USA-based (California) author and leadership coach

• 2025-03-13: 🗣🇭🇰 AISW#050 Luke Hu, China-based (Hong Kong) technical account manager in finance

• 2025-03-20: 🗣🇺🇸 AISW#051 Aarna Sahu, USA-based (California) high school student and Founder & CEO of the Aarna’s News podcast

• 2025-03-27: 📜🇬🇧 AISW #052

  Annie Ridout
  (Raising Neurodivergence and
  The Creative Way (with Annie Ridout)
  ), UK-based (London) freelance writer and creative entrepreneur

• 2025-04-03: 🗣🇳🇿 AISW#053 Erin Spencer (Microdosing Chaos), New Zealand-based PhD student in health sciences

• 2025-04-10: 🗣🇺🇸 AISW#054

  Aaron Wilkerson
  (
  Boy Meets Data
  ), USA-based (Michigan) data and analytics leader

• 2025-04-17: 📜 🇬🇪 AISW#055

  Daria
  Markava, Belarusian high school student and AI enthusiast based in Georgia

• 2025-04-24: 🗣🇺🇸 AISW#056

  Jordan Harrod
  (
  es machina
  ), USA-based (MIT) PhD candidate, AI consultant, and writer about humans & AI

• 2025-05-01: 🗣️🇧🇬 AISW#057

  Evgeniy Choffski
  (
  The Page Mage
  ), Bulgaria-based marketer, writer, and artist

• 2025-05-08: 📜🇭🇰 AISW#058

  Grace Shao
  (
  AI Proem
  ), Hong Kong-based AI and tech consultant

• 2025-05-15: 📜🇺🇸 AISW#059 Anonymous9, USA-based (Seattle) high school teacher

• 2025-05-22: 🗣🇬🇧 AISW#060

  Jing Hu
  (
  2nd Order Thinkers.
  ), UK-based (London) independent AI journalist and technologist

• 2025-05-29: 🗣🇯🇵 AISW #061 Michael Tisher, Japan-based (Tokyo) university professor in math and statistics

• 2025-06-05: 🗣🇺🇸 AISW #062

  Jenn Spykerman
  , USA-based (Colorado) tech executive and consultant

• 2025-06-12: 🗣🇩🇰 AISW #063

  Coach Noemi Apetri 🇩🇰
  (
  Me Time Coaching: You're the CEO of your own life!
  ,
  Legally speaking...
  ), Denmark-based (Copenhagen) tech lawyer and coach

• 2025-06-19: 🗣🇺🇸 AISW #064

  Pavan
  Vemuri, USA-based (Michigan) product and technology leader

• 2025-06-26: 🗣🇬🇧 AISW #065

  Natalie Phillips
  (
  Plotted Out
  ), UK-based (England) marketing strategist and fantasy fiction writer

• 2025-07-03: 🇺🇸 AISW #066 USA-based (New York) product leader

  Marina Vytovtova
  (Product In Action)

Upcoming Interviews

Interviews completed and in production:

• 2025-07-10: 🇦🇺 AISW #067 Australia-based (Melbourne) documentary fashion photographer

  Liz Sunshine
  (
  Our Relationship With Clothes
  )

• 2025-07-17: 🇺🇸 AISW #068 USA-based (Arizona) machine learning engineer Srivatsav Nambi

• 2025-07-24: 🇨🇩 AISW #069 South Africa-based Congolese social innovator

  Rebecca Mbaya

• 2025-07-31: 🇦🇺 AISW #070

  Jax
  NiCarthaigh, Australia-based (Canberra) systems thinker (
  Towards Gen2200 with Jax
  )

Interviews scheduled and in progress:

(guests and publication order are subject to change)

• 2025-08-07: Special 1-year anniversary reflection (AISW#001):

  Kathy Gerstorff

• Maybe you? Please see the guest FAQ and DM Karen if you’d like to be featured as a guest!

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Publishing Schedule

The AI, Software, & Wetware (AISW) interview series was launched on August 1, 2024. This page is updated weekly with links whenever new interview posts are published.

• An audio 🗣️ or text 📜 interview will be published on Thursdays at 6:06am ET. Audio interviews are available in internal and external podcast players.

• A bonus text-only 📜 interview may be published on Mondays at 6:06pm ET.

A new “AI, Software, & Wetware” LinkedIn newsletter is also updated weekly on Thursday evenings ET, with links to new interviews for the past week.

Some interviews are also publicized on Bluesky and other social media, such as Mastodon or Medium.

Audio interviews are available in the AI6P podcast on Substack, and usually also available in the AI6P external podcasts (Apple, etc.). All audio interview posts include full human-edited transcripts.

For those who prefer listening to reading: Substack now supports read-aloud natively in the Substack app. Give it a try on the written-only interviews.

Credits

Microphone photo by Michal Czyz on Unsplash - default post image for anonymous interviews and for the series

References

"AI, Software, & Wetware": a new interview series 🗣️

AISW Interview Guidelines

AI Glossary and References

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