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 on ethical AI worldwide

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

Quick links

• Call for Participation

• About These Interviews

• Published Interviews - 2024

• Published Interviews - 2025

• Published Interviews - 2026

  • 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”:

"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. But it probably is — even if your experience is the intentional avoidance of AI.

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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.

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.)

🎉Our 100th interview was published on March 5, 2026. See Lakshmi Veeramani’s interview with series host, Karen Smiley:

🗣️ AISW recap: 100 interviews on everyday ethical AI

For an overview on AI ethics, see “Top 5 things to know about AI ethics”:

Top 5 things to know about AI ethics

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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 (no longer available online)

• 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 andThe 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 (Daria's Tech Musings), 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 Marina Vytovtova (Product In Action), USA-based (New York) product leader

• 2025-07-10: 📜🇦🇺 AISW #067 Liz Sunshine (Our Relationship With Clothes), Australia-based (Melbourne) documentary fashion photographer

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

• 2025-07-24: 🗣🇨🇩 🇿🇦 AISW #069 Rebecca Mbaya, South Africa-based Congolese social innovator and writer

• 2025-07-31: 📜🇺🇸 Special 1-year anniversary reflection on what’s changed since AISW#001: Kathy Gerstorff (Indie Author Insights)

• 2025-08-07: 🗣🇦🇺 AISW #070 Jax NiCarthaigh (Towards Gen2200 with Jax), Australian (Canberra) systems thinker

• 2025-08-14: 🗣🇨🇦 AISW #071 Amanda Jeanne (Squirrel Brain, Chickadee Soul), Canadian (Ontario) artist and retreat facilitator

• 2025-08-21: 🗣🇺🇸 AISW #072 Debbie Reynolds, “The Data Diva”, USA (Chicago) data privacy and emerging technology expert

• 2025-08-28: 📜🇺🇸 AISW #073 Dee McCrorey (A Bridge to AI), USA (Silicon Valley) transformation strategist

• 2025-09-04: 🗣🇦🇺 AISW #074 Gunnar Habitz (Writing in Cafés ☕️ Publish Your Book 📖), Australia (Sydney), 24x author and senior partnership manager

• 2025-09-11: 🗣🇦🇺 AISW #075, Sue Cunningham, Australia (Melbourne), founder of The Uncertainty Lab

• 2025-09-18: 🗣🇺🇸 AISW #076, Celeste Garcia (Celeste Garcia Getting Real About AI), USA (Seattle), writer

• 2025-09-25: 📜🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 AISW #077, Sam Illingworth (Slow AI ), Scotland (Edinburgh), university professor and writer

• 2025-10-02: 📜🇺🇸 AISW #078, Jeremiah Cioffi, USA (Washington DC), attorney and AI entrepreneur

• 2025-10-09: 🗣🇵🇪 🇺🇸 AISW #079, Alicia Yanez (Built For Product), Peru / USA (Silicon Valley)

• 2025-10-16: 🗣🇳🇬 AISW #080, Samuel Theophilus (Nnitiwe's AI Blog), Nigeria (Federal Capital Territory), AI & data engineer

• 2025-10-23: 🗣🇺🇸 AISW #081, KayStoner (What Good Is AI?), USA (Delaware), relational AI architect

• 2025-10-30: 📜🇷🇴 AISW #082, Mia Kiraki 🎭 (ROBOTS ATE MY HOMEWORK), Romania, founder and CMO at Yahini

• 2025-11-06: 🗣🇺🇸 AISW #083, Steve Matre, USA (Illinois), property management executive

• 2025-11-13: 📜🇺🇸 AISW #084, Emily (Dimensional Drift), USA (California), computational memory researcher

• 2025-11-20: 🗣🇩🇰 AISW #085, Tobias Mark Jensen (Futuristic Lawyer), Denmark, independent legal consultant and communicator

• 2025-11-27: 🗣🇺🇸 AISW #086, Future Cain, USA (Midwest), Social Emotional Leadership and wellness expert

• 2025-12-04: 🗣🇸🇬 AISW #087, Jean Gan, Singapore, senior legal manager

• 2025-12-11: 🗣🇩🇪 AISW #088, Dr. Anna Katharina Meyer, Germany (Düsseldorf), sustainability entrepreneur at Finding Sustainia

• 2025-12-18: 🗣🇺🇸 AISW #089, Jessica Parker, Ed.D. (Women writin' 'bout AI), USA (North Carolina), educational researcher and academic entrepreneur

• 2025-12-25: 🗣🇨🇦 AISW #090, Haleh Magnus, Canada (British Columbia), legal operations expert and personal coach

2026 Interviews - Season Three

Published:

• 2026-01-01: 🗣🇺🇸 AISW #091, Sable Lomax, USA (New York City), leadership consultant and trainer

• 2026-01-08: 🗣🇺🇸 AISW #092, Karen Spinner (Wondering About AI), USA (Arkansas), writer and software developer

• 2026-01-15: 🗣🇮🇹 🇺🇸 🇨🇭 AISW #093, Elettra Fiumi (AI Cinema By Elettra Fiumi) , Switzerland-based Italian-American filmmaker

• 2026-01-22: 🗣🇺🇸 AISW #094, Dr. Salman Azhar, USA (North Carolina), venture capitalist and entrepreneur

• 2026-01-29: 🗣🇨🇱 AISW #095, Catalina Páez Plaza (The Intimacy Protocol), Chile (Santiago), relational AI educator

• 2026-02-05: 🗣🇺🇸 AISW #096, Josh Geisler, USA (New York), musician and music technologist

• 2026-02-12: 🗣🇺🇸 AISW #097, Bonnie Marcus (Own Your Ambition), USA (California), executive coach and author

• 2026-02-19: 🗣🇳🇬 AISW #098, Kadri Adekunle Mayowa, Nigeria (Lagos), product generalist

• 2026-02-26: 🗣🇺🇸 AISW #099, Janpriya Kaur, USA (California), certified anesthesiologist assistant and entrepreneur

• 2026-03-05: 📜🇩🇰 AISW #100, Karo (Product with Attitude), Denmark, AI product manager and builder

• 2026-03-12: 🗣🇺🇸 AISW #101, Lynn Marie Sager (Navigating a Whackadoodle World), USA (Hawaii), author and retired actress

• 2026-03-19: 🗣🇺🇸 AISW #102, Justin G. Cobb, USA (Washington DC), founder of Small Seeds Media

• 2026-03-26: 🗣🇺🇸 AISW #103, Amy Swaner, USA (Iowa), author of AI for Lawyers and founder of Lexara legal tech startup

• 2026-04-02: 🗣🇺🇸 🇮🇳 AISW #104, Devika Toprani (Soulful Learning With AI), USA (Seattle), founder of Somagraphic Learning

• 2026-04-09: 📜🇰🇪 AISW #105, Joan Kinyua, Kenya (Nairobi), digital rights advocate and founder of the Data Labelers Association

• 2026-04-16: 🗣🇬🇧 AISW #106, David Pugh-Jones, UK (England), CMO and neurodiversity charity trustee

• 2026-04-23: 🗣🇨🇱 AISW #107, Estefanía Valero Merkt, Chile (Santiago), founder of CALIZ Studios

• 2026-04-30: 🗣🇨🇦 AISW #108, Gaurav Madani, Canada (Toronto), real estate tech entrepreneur and co-founder of Leni

Upcoming Interviews

Interviews publishing soon:

• 2026-05-07: 🗣🇮🇹 🇺🇸 AISW #109, Cristina Patrick (The Responsible AI Brief), Italy & USA, responsible AI advocate

• 2026-05-14: 📜🇪🇸 AISW #110, Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭, Spain, senior software engineer and tech lead

Interviews completed and in production:

(publication order and dates are subject to change)

• 2026-05-21: 🗣🇺🇸 AISW #111, Joanna Grossman, MD, MSc, USA (Georgia), medical researcher in hematology/oncology

• 2026-05-28: 🗣🇺🇸 AISW #112, Zoe Martin, USA (Texas), video and fine art production artist

• 2026-06-04: 🗣🇨🇦 AISW #113, Paola Santiago (PS Product Person), Canada (Toronto & Vancouver), fractional product manager

Interviews scheduled:

(not pre-announced; guests and publication order are subject to change)

Maybe YOU? Please see the guest FAQ and DM Karen Smiley if you’d like to be featured as a guest in 2026.

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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.

• On occasion, a bonus text-only 📜 interview may be published on a Monday at 6:06pm ET.

The “AI, Software, & Wetware” LinkedIn newsletter is also updated weekly on Thursdays, typically in the ET evenings, 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 the “Cora” voice 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

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