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This Week in Leading AI

This Week in Leading AI

By: Leading AI
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Imagine two mates at the bar. Thirty years of business between them. And all they want to talk about is AI.


That's "This Week in Leading AI". The podcast where Kieron and Neil cut through the hype, share what's really working in the world of Generative AI, and helping people figure out this AI thing without the techno-babble.


Just honest conversation, real stories from the AI coalface, and the kind of straight-talking advice you'd only get from people who've worked together for 30+ years, been there, done that, broken things, gone "Oh S***!, fixed it, and lived to tell the tale. They claim Leading AI is the best job they've ever had and are having a blast doing it. It shows.


Warning: may cause you to actually enjoy learning about AI


Pull up a stool. We'll get the beers in.

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  • #3 - 6 Mar 2026

    #3 - 6 Mar 2026
    Mar 10 2026

    Episode 3: Talking to AI, How Buying Has Changed & the Birthday Gift Nobody Expected

    Kieron's back from a whirlwind week — Glasgow, a college hackathon, a delayed flight, and Tunnock's teacakes. Neil's been holding the fort. Between them, they've got plenty to talk about.

    This week the lads get into some genuinely meaty topics:

    Talking to AI — are we doing it wrong? A simple conversation about how people interact with AI opens up a fascinating rabbit hole. From a BBC documentary about an AI girlfriend encouraging a man to break into Windsor Castle, to whether AI is making us all a bit... dimmer. Like calculators did for mental maths. Thought-provoking stuff.

    The way people buy AI has changed Six months ago, organisations would see a demo and just go for it. Now? Committees, multiple demos, procurement processes. Is AI growing up and becoming a mainstream IT purchase — or are people just getting more nervous? Kieron shares his observations from the frontline.

    Product of the week 🎵 (imagine your own jingle) Two new KnowledgeFlow features that are genuinely impressive — safeguarding alerts that flag high-risk phrases in real time, and "Excel Stitching" — a tool that takes multiple spreadsheets and lets you interrogate all of them at once in plain English. Could this spell trouble for traditional BI dashboards? They think so.

    From the road Kieron's report from Scotland's Housing Festival — standing room only, a wandering microphone, and the mould demo he forgot to do (you'll have to tune in to understand why that matters).

    Oh — and the mystery birthday gift from last week? Duck fat and goose fat. The roasties were, apparently, a triumph.

    Neil's off snowboarding next week — tune in to find out who's keeping Kieron company on the podcast bar stool.
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