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Season 7—Spring 2026  ·  13 episodes  ·  Through-line: the human architecture of institutional change
Boring AI
is Good AI
Gordon
Why AI Scaffolding
Matters More than Use Cases
Flowers · S6
Decentralized
AI is the Future
Goertzel
Canonical
Knowledge is Key
DosSantos
What AI as
Cheap Prediction Means
Gans
Cheap Prediction,
Expensive Change
Goldfarb
Folk Law &
Fax Machines
Pahlka
Inside The
Infinity Machine
Mallaby
Crisis Is
Your Opening
Nitze
The Confabulation
Machine
Ratliff
No Strategy
Without Vision
Evergreen
When Agents Have
Wallets, Trust Is Currency
Cohen Freue
Nuclear Fusion,
No Power Lines
Frankle
The Checklist Your
Deck Is Missing
McMillan
Knowing Before
Doing
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Valla Vakili

Managing Director, Head of Citi Ventures Studio
Valla Vakili

Valla Vakili is head of the Ventures Studio at Citi Ventures, a division of Citigroup headquartered in Silicon Valley, with offices in San Francisco, New York, London, and Tel Aviv. Citi Ventures explores, incubates, and invests in new ideas, in partnership with Citi colleagues and clients and a variety of innovators.

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The future of work will be far less frightening when there’s more women in AI

2019-11-26◆ Class of 2019