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Invisible Machines

The #1 podcast in the conversational AI

Join great weekly conversations with experts in a podcast about AI agents, conversational AI and organizational artificial general intelligence (OAGI), covering the intersection of UX, business, AI technology and design.

Join Robb Wilson and Josh Tyson, authors of Age Of Invisible Machines, as they continue the conversations that began in their book—the first bestseller about conversational AI. As the CEO and co-founder OneReach.ai, Robb Wilson has been envisioning and working toward the moment we’re in with ChatGPT, generative tools, and AI agents for more than a decade.

Invisible Machines features weekly conversations with leading thinkers and doers that give listeners an inside edge with these revolutionary technologies.

Over 800,000 followers

Robb Wilson

Authored the first bestselling conversational AI book, “Age of Invisible Machines”. Founded OneReach.ai, an acclaimed AI orchestration platform. Built and sold a consultancy that rivaled IDEO and Frog Design.

Josh Tyson

Contributing editor to UX Magazine and co-author of Age of Invisible Machines. Josh’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Raconteur, and Thrasher.

Our podcast began with the first bestselling book about conversational AI.

In “Age of Invisible Machines”, our hosts, celebrated UX pioneer and AI innovator Robb Wilson, alongside Josh Tyson, deliver startlingly honest and insightful blueprints for leveraging AI agents and generative AI.

Critically acclaimed by business leaders, product owners, designers, and technologists, this guide predicts the current AI revolution. It helps teams become more self-driving by designing and deploying interconnected AI agent skills that accelerate operations and elevate employee and customer experiences.

Top 10 episodes

IN ACTION
EPISODE

Annie Harshberger

Lead Experience Architect at OneReach.ai

AI Agents in Action

Ben Goertzel

Popularized the Term “AGI”, and Founder and CEO of SingularityNET

The path to singularity

Cassie Kozyrkov

Google’s First Chief Decision Scientist

Putting data in its place and giving technology a face

Jaron Lanier

Microsoft’s First Ever Prime Unifying Scientist

Questioning Everything

Danny DeRuntz & Jenna Fizel

IDEO’s Executive Design Director & IDEO’s Senior Director of Emerging Technology

Practical tales of conversational AI with IDEO

Jeff McMillan

Head of AI, Morgan Stanley

Successful Adoption of AI

Lisa Feldman Barrett

Neuroscientist, Psychologist, and Bestselling Author

The Promise and Peril of Boundless Predictive Machines

Kate Moran & Sarah Gibbons

VP of Research and Content at Nielsen Norman Group & Vice President at Nielsen Norman Group

With UX and AI, Context is Everything

Josh Tyson & Robb Wilson

Director of Creative Content for OneReach.ai & CEO, Co-Founder, Lead Designer, and Chief Technologist behind OneReach.ai

Generative AI Won’t Kill Creativity

Don Norman

Author of “The Design of Everything Things”, Researcher, and Professor

Rethinking the lifecycle of design in the face of AI

Latest Episode

IN ACTION
EPISODE

Computer Vision
In Action

Jason Corso

Professor of Robotics at University of Michigan

Guests

Tanmay Bakshi

Tech Prodigy and AI Application Architect on McDonald’s conversational AI initiative

Tom Gruber

Siri’s Co-Founder, CTO, and Head of Design, and Chief AI Strategy Officer at Sherpa.ai

Kara Swisher

Legendary Tech Journalist and Bestselling Author of “Burn Book”

Roger Forsgren

NASA’s Former Chief Knowledge Officer

RJ Owen

Slack’s Principal Product Designer

Cassie Kozyrkov

Google’s First Chief Decision Scientist

Richard Saul Wurman

Creator of TED

Gary Sorrentino

Zoom’s Global CIO

Cathy Pearl

Google’s UX Lead on Gemini

Lee Hood

World-Renowned Scientist and Bestselling Author of “The Age of Scientific Wellness”

Nathan Price

Chief Scientific Officer at Thorne HealthTech and Bestselling Author of “The Age of Scientific Wellness”

Laura Herman

Head of AI Research at Adobe, Researcher at the University of Oxford

Tim Wood

Principal Designer, AI Platforms at AWS

Jonathan Frankle

Chief Scientist at MosaicML (acquired by Databricks)

Blaise Agüera y Arcas

VP and Fellow at Google Research, AI Researcher, and Author of “Who Are We Now?”

Don Scheibenreif

Gartner’s VP and Distinguished Analyst of Global Enterprise Executive Research

Jeff McMillan

Head of AI, Morgan Stanley

Gloria Mark

PhD Chancellor’s Professor of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine

Emily M. Bender

Co-Author of the Legendary AI Paper, “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots”, and Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington

Seth Godin

Author of over 20 bestselling books, Pioneering Entrepreneur, and Speaker

Paul English

Co-Founder of Kayak and GetHuman

Adam Cheyer

Co-Creator of Siri

Jason Corso

Professor of Robotics at University of Michigan

Daniel Lametti

Associate Professor of Psycholinguistics at Acadia University

Ed Klaris

Managing Partner at Klaris Law

Jieun Kiaer

Professor of Korean Linguistics at Oxford

Marc Prensky

Bestselling Author, Coined the Term "Digital Native"

Harsha Gowda

CTO of Getronics

Nitin Bhudia

Director Of Innovation at Getronics

Dr. Michael Grieves

The Father of Digital Twins

Matt Alston

Journalist, Copywriter, Author of “Everybody hates Workday”

Janelle Teng

Vice President at Bessemer Venture Partners

Sophie Bushwick

Senior News Editor at New Scientist

Cole Gentile

Solutions Designer at OneReach.ai

James Bridle

Writer, Author of Ways of Being, Artist, and Technologist

Aaron De Smet

Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company

Ben Goertzel

Popularized the Term “AGI”, and Founder and CEO of SingularityNET

Jess Larsen

Host of the "Innovation & Leadership" podcast, Dynamic Entrepreneur, and Visionary Leader

Greg Vert

Principal and HR Transformation Leader at Deloitte

Annie Harshberger

Lead Experience Architect at OneReach.ai

Joanna Kuc

PhD Candidate in Experimental Psychology at University College London and Data Scientist at Compass Pathways

Aaron Cooper

Banner Health’s Senior Director of Digital Experience

Richard Florida

World-Renowned Economist and Urban Studies Researcher

Payal Arora

Author, Professor, and Co-Founder of FemLab

Greg Nudelman

UX Veteran, Author and Distinguished UX Designer

Jaron Lanier

Microsoft’s First Ever Prime Unifying Scientist

Daron Acemoglu

Bestselling Author of “Power and Progress” and “Why Nations Fail”, and MIT’s Institute Professor of Economics

Lisa Feldman Barrett

Neuroscientist, Psychologist, and Bestselling Author

Kate Moran

VP of Research and Content at Nielsen Norman Group

Sarah Gibbons

Vice President at Nielsen Norman Group

Daniel Stillman

Author of “Good Talk” and Design Coach

Sheryl Cababa

Professor at the University of Washington Human Centered Design & Engineering

Jake Saper

General Partner at Emergence Capital

Brad Stulberg

Bestselling Author of “Master of Change”, Professor at the University of Michigan

Cammy Crolic

University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School, Professor of Behavioral Researcher

David Bingham

Director of User Experience at Schneider Electric

Yoav Shoham

Co-Founder of A21Labs and Stanford Professor

Shep Hyken

CX Expert and Author of “The Amazement Revolution” and “The Convenience Revolution”

Mike Lee

Founder of The Future Market and Innovation Consultant

Louis Rosenfeld

Founder and Publisher at Rosenfeld Media and Information Architect

Danny DeRuntz

IDEO’s Executive Design Director

Jenna Fizel

IDEO’s Senior Director of Emerging Technology

Charlene Li

Digital Transformation Expert, Coach and Author of “The Disruption Mindset”

Peter Greenberg

Multiple Emmy Award Winner, CBS News Travel Editor, Journalist and Bestselling Author

Jim Webber

Chief Scientist at Neo4j

Don Norman

Author of “The Design of Everything Things”, Researcher, and Professor

Rebecca Evanhoe

Co-Author of “Conversations with Things” and Conversational Designer

Tim O’Reilly

Founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media

Theo Priestley

Futurist and Author of “The Future Start Now”

Anna Yankovska

Team Lead at HUMANS, Coffee in Tech, the AI-powered coffee shop

Helen Peklo

Operations Manager at OneReach.ai

Ben Armstrong

Executive Director and Research Scientist at MIT’s Industrial Performance Center

Julie Shah

MIT Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Ovetta Sampson

Google’s Director of User Experience Core Machine Learning

Guido Baratta

Chief Design Officer at Icon Incar

Jesse James Garrett

Author of “The Elements of User Experience” and Co-Founder of Adaptive Path

Explore the expanding world of conversational AI across industries and applications

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IN ACTION
EPISODE

Jason Corso

Professor of Robotics at University of Michigan

Computer Vision in Action

IN ACTION
EPISODE

Daniel Lametti

Associate Professor of Psycholinguistics at Acadia University

AI Agent Building in Action

Ed Klaris

Managing Partner at Klaris Law

Are generative AI tools unlawful to use?

Jieun Kiaer

Professor of Korean Linguistics at Oxford

Designing a Future for
AI Natives

Marc Prensky

Bestselling Author, Coined the Term "Digital Native"

Digital Natives Are Now
AI Immigrants

Harsha Gowda & Nitin Bhudia

Harsha Gowda, CTO of Getronics and Nitin Bhudia, Director Of Innovation at Getronics

Is AI the End of Companies?

Dr. Michael Grieves

The Father of Digital Twins

Digital Twins in an Agentic World

Matt Alston

Journalist, Copywriter, Author of “Everybody hates Workday”

Will We Ever Love
Using Software?

Janelle Teng

Vice President at Bessemer Venture Partners

Are AI Agents
the End of SaaS?

Sophie Bushwick

Senior News Editor at New Scientist

How Human Should AI Agents Really Be?

IN ACTION
EPISODE

Cole Gentile

Solutions Designer at OneReach.ai

Agentic Micro UIs in Action

James Bridle

Writer, Author of Ways of Being, Artist, and Technologist

The Intelligence
All Around Us

Aaron De Smet

Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company

The AGI in Organizational Agility

Ben Goertzel

Popularized the Term “AGI”, and Founder and CEO of SingularityNET

Ephemeral Applications and AGI

Josh Tyson & Robb Wilson

Director of Creative Content for OneReach.ai & CEO, Co-Founder, Lead Designer, and Chief Technologist behind OneReach.ai

Exploring
Organizational AGI

Jess Larsen & Robb Wilson

Larsen hosts the "Innovation & Leadership" podcast. Wilson leads AI agent platform, OneReach.ai, is a bestselling AI author and hosts "Invisible Machines"

Building an Autonomous Company with AI Agents

Tanmay Bakshi

Tech Prodigy and AI Application Architect on McDonald’s conversational AI initiative

AI Is a UX Term

Tom Gruber

Siri’s Co-Founder, CTO, and Head of Design, and Chief AI Strategy Officer at Sherpa.ai

Forging Humanistic AI

Greg Vert

Principal and HR Transformation Leader at Deloitte

AI Agents at Work

Kara Swisher

Legendary Tech Journalist and Bestselling Author of “Burn Book”

Behind the Curtain with Kara Swisher

IN ACTION
EPISODE

Annie Harshberger

Lead Experience Architect at OneReach.ai

AI Agents in Action

Josh Tyson & Robb Wilson

Director of Creative Content for OneReach.ai & CEO, Co-Founder, Lead Designer, and Chief Technologist behind OneReach.ai

Exploring AI Agents

IN ACTION
EPISODE

Daniel Lametti & Joanna Kuc

Associate Professor of Psycholinguistics at Acadia University & PhD Candidate in Experimental Psychology at University College London and Data Scientist at Compass Pathways

Building a Journaling Bot in Action

Aaron Cooper

Banner Health’s Senior Director of Digital Experience

Hiring Conversational Designers

Roger Forsgren

NASA’s Former Chief Knowledge Officer

Lean Knowledge Management

David Wu & Jeff McMillan

Morgan Stanley’s Head of Knowledge Management & Generative AI & Head of AI, Morgan Stanley

Building an Advanced Digital Assistant

Richard Florida

World-Renowned Economist and Urban Studies Researcher

Innovation Lives in Cities

Payal Arora

Author, Professor, and Co-Founder of FemLab

Innovation in the Global South

Gary Sorrentino

Zoom’s Global CIO

The Future of Collaboration is Human

Greg Nudelman

UX Veteran, Author and Distinguished UX Designer

How Can We Iterate Faster?

Emily M. Bender

Co-Author of the Legendary AI Paper, “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots”, and Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington

LLM? More Like “Limited” Language Model

Jaron Lanier

Microsoft’s First Ever Prime Unifying Scientist

Questioning Everything

Daron Acemoglu

Bestselling Author of “Power and Progress” and “Why Nations Fail”, and MIT’s Institute Professor of Economics

What Can Economics Teach Us about Conversational AI?

Gloria Mark

PhD Chancellor’s Professor of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine

Can Conversational AI Revive Our Declining Attention Spans?

Lisa Feldman Barrett

Neuroscientist, Psychologist, and Bestselling Author

The Promise and Peril of Boundless Predictive Machines

RJ Owen

Slack’s Principal Product Designer

One Messaging Channel to Rule Them All?

Kate Moran & Sarah Gibbons

VP of Research and Content at Nielsen Norman Group & Vice President at Nielsen Norman Group

With UX and AI, Context is Everything

Paul English

Co-Founder of Kayak and GetHuman

The Staggering Depth of Thin UI Layers

Richard Saul Wurman

Creator of TED

An Exercise in Unfiltered Conversation

Daniel Stillman

Author of “Good Talk” and Design Coach

The Human Nature of Conversational Design

Cathy Pearl

Google’s UX Lead on Gemini

A Deep Dive on Conversational Design

Blaise Agüera y Arcas

VP and Fellow at Google Research, AI Researcher, and Author of “Who Are We Now?”

Identity and Collective Intelligence

Jeff McMillan

Head of AI, Morgan Stanley

Successful Adoption of AI

Sheryl Cababa

Professor at the University of Washington Human Centered Design & Engineering

Designing Systemic Change

Jake Saper

General Partner at Emergence Capital

How AI is Disrupting the VC World

Brad Stulberg

Bestselling Author of “Master of Change”, Professor at the University of Michigan

Rugged flexibility in the face of AI

Cammy Crolic

University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School, Professor of Behavioral Researcher

How will human behavior impact conversational AI (and vice versa)?

Ben Goertzel

Popularized the Term “AGI”, and Founder and CEO of SingularityNET

The path to singularity

David Bingham

Director of User Experience at Schneider Electric

Conversational AI in industrial experience design and beyond

Yoav Shoham

Co-Founder of A21Labs and Stanford Professor

Will AI improve our thinking?

Shep Hyken

CX Expert and Author of “The Amazement Revolution” and “The Convenience Revolution”

How companies can get serious about customer experience

Mike Lee

Founder of The Future Market and Innovation Consultant

The lessons the food industry can offer conversational AI

Cassie Kozyrkov

Google’s First Chief Decision Scientist

Putting data in its place and giving technology a face

Louis Rosenfeld

Founder and Publisher at Rosenfeld Media and Information Architect

Avoiding “moment prisons” as we move into the era of conversational AI

Danny DeRuntz & Jenna Fizel

IDEO’s Executive Design Director & IDEO’s Senior Director of Emerging Technology

Practical tales of conversational AI with IDEO

Don Scheibenreif

Gartner’s VP and Distinguished Analyst of Global Enterprise Executive Research

How the world will change when invisible machines become customers

Tim Wood

Principal Designer, AI Platforms at AWS

How we can wrap our heads around AI and move business forward responsibly

Charlene Li

Digital Transformation Expert, Coach and Author of “The Disruption Mindset”

How business leaders can change their relationship to technology

Peter Greenberg

Multiple Emmy Award Winner, CBS News Travel Editor, Journalist and Bestselling Author

How AI can help heal a broken travel and hospitality industry

Laura Herman

Head of AI Research at Adobe, Researcher at the University of Oxford

AI, Our Perception of Artistry, and Our Ability to Create Art

Jim Webber

Chief Scientist at Neo4j

Do GraphDBs give large language models (LLMs) context for doing real work?

Lee Hood & Nathan Price

World-Renowned Scientist and Bestselling Author of “The Age of Scientific Wellness” & Chief Scientific Officer at Thorne HealthTech and Bestselling Author of “The Age of Scientific Wellness”

Conversational AI Advancing Personalized Healthcare

Jonathan Frankle

Chief Scientist at MosaicML (acquired by Databricks)

Training an LLMs with the hundreds-of-mini-cupcakes approach

Adam Cheyer

Co-Creator of Siri

Lessons learned in conversational AI

Don Norman

Author of “The Design of Everything Things”, Researcher, and Professor

Rethinking the lifecycle of design in the face of AI

Rebecca Evanhoe

Co-Author of “Conversations with Things” and Conversational Designer

Conversational design leads to co-creation with humans and machines

Tim O’Reilly

Founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media

We’re in a familliar moment with technology

Seth Godin

Author of over 20 bestselling books, Pioneering Entrepreneur, and Speaker

Using AI and design to break free from the productivity trap

Theo Priestley

Futurist and Author of “The Future Start Now”

The futurist mindset is a lot like design thinking

Anna Yankovska & Helen Peklo

Team Lead at HUMANS, Coffee in Tech, the AI-powered coffee shop & Operations Manager at OneReach.ai

Hospitality redefined by conversational AI in action

Josh Tyson & Robb Wilson

Director of Creative Content for OneReach.ai & CEO, Co-Founder, Lead Designer, and Chief Technologist behind OneReach.ai

Digging Into Digital Twins

Ben Armstrong & Julie Shah

Executive Director and Research Scientist at MIT’s Industrial Performance Center & MIT Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Similarities between tangible machines and invisible ones

Ovetta Sampson

Google’s Director of User Experience Core Machine Learning

Designing with AI limitations in mind

Guido Baratta

Chief Design Officer at Icon Incar

How is AI changing the automotive experience

Josh Tyson & Robb Wilson

Director of Creative Content for OneReach.ai & CEO, Co-Founder, Lead Designer, and Chief Technologist behind OneReach.ai

Conversational Design in Action

Jesse James Garrett

Author of “The Elements of User Experience” and Co-Founder of Adaptive Path

Designers can ignite conversational AI

Josh Tyson & Robb Wilson

Director of Creative Content for OneReach.ai & CEO, Co-Founder, Lead Designer, and Chief Technologist behind OneReach.ai

AI Needs UX

Greg Vert

Principal and HR Transformation Leader at Deloitte

Opportunity abounds at the intersection of HR and AI

Josh Tyson & Robb Wilson

Director of Creative Content for OneReach.ai & CEO, Co-Founder, Lead Designer, and Chief Technologist behind OneReach.ai

High Risk and Lots of Experimentation

Josh Tyson & Robb Wilson

Director of Creative Content for OneReach.ai & CEO, Co-Founder, Lead Designer, and Chief Technologist behind OneReach.ai

De-Appifying Our Lives with AI

Josh Tyson & Robb Wilson

Director of Creative Content for OneReach.ai & CEO, Co-Founder, Lead Designer, and Chief Technologist behind OneReach.ai

Generative AI Won’t Kill Creativity

IN ACTION
EPISODE

Jason Corso

Professor of Robotics at University of Michigan

Computer Vision in Action

IN ACTION
EPISODE

Daniel Lametti

Associate Professor of Psycholinguistics at Acadia University

AI Agent Building in Action

IN ACTION
EPISODE

Cole Gentile

Solutions Designer at OneReach.ai

Agentic Micro UIs in Action

IN ACTION
EPISODE

Annie Harshberger

Lead Experience Architect at OneReach.ai

AI Agents in Action

IN ACTION
EPISODE

Daniel Lametti & Joanna Kuc

Associate Professor of Psycholinguistics at Acadia University & PhD Candidate in Experimental Psychology at University College London and Data Scientist at Compass Pathways

Building a Journaling Bot in Action

Tom Gruber

Siri’s Co-Founder, CTO, and Head of Design, and Chief AI Strategy Officer at Sherpa.ai

Forging Humanistic AI

Paul English

Co-Founder of Kayak and GetHuman

The Staggering Depth of Thin UI Layers

Ovetta Sampson

Google’s Director of User Experience Core Machine Learning

Designing with AI limitations in mind

Aaron Cooper

Banner Health’s Senior Director of Digital Experience

Hiring Conversational Designers

Yoav Shoham

Co-Founder of A21Labs and Stanford Professor

Will AI improve our thinking?

Tim Wood

Principal Designer, AI Platforms at AWS

How we can wrap our heads around AI and move business forward responsibly

Cathy Pearl

Google’s UX Lead on Gemini

A Deep Dive on Conversational Design

Seth Godin

Author of over 20 bestselling books, Pioneering Entrepreneur, and Speaker

Using AI and design to break free from the productivity trap

Jim Webber

Chief Scientist at Neo4j

Do GraphDBs give large language models (LLMs) context for doing real work?

Lee Hood & Nathan Price

World-Renowned Scientist and Bestselling Author of “The Age of Scientific Wellness” & Chief Scientific Officer at Thorne HealthTech and Bestselling Author of “The Age of Scientific Wellness”

Conversational AI Advancing Personalized Healthcare

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AI agents, or Intelligent Digital Workers (IDWs), can automate tasks across various channels, communicating with one another, sharing data, and swarming around complex tasks.

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Invisible Machines will have a massive impact on society at all levels, and no topic is too abstract or far-reaching.

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How can business leaders change their relationship to technology?

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How can business leaders change their relationship to technology?

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Robb Wilson

Josh Tyson

Our podcast began with the first bestselling book about conversational AI.

Top 10 episodes

Annie Harshberger

Ben Goertzel

Cassie Kozyrkov

Jaron Lanier

Danny DeRuntz & Jenna Fizel

Jeff McMillan

Lisa Feldman Barrett

Kate Moran & Sarah Gibbons

Josh Tyson & Robb Wilson

Don Norman

Latest Episode

Computer Vision In Action

Jason Corso

Professor of Robotics at University of Michigan

Guests

Tanmay Bakshi

Tom Gruber

Kara Swisher

Roger Forsgren

RJ Owen

Cassie Kozyrkov

Richard Saul Wurman

Gary Sorrentino

Cathy Pearl

Lee Hood

Nathan Price

Laura Herman

Tim Wood

Jonathan Frankle

Blaise Agüera y Arcas

Don Scheibenreif

Jeff McMillan

Gloria Mark

Emily M. Bender

Seth Godin

Paul English

Adam Cheyer

Jason Corso

Daniel Lametti

Ed Klaris

Jieun Kiaer

Marc Prensky

Harsha Gowda

Nitin Bhudia

Dr. Michael Grieves

Matt Alston

Janelle Teng

Sophie Bushwick

Cole Gentile

James Bridle

Aaron De Smet

Ben Goertzel

Jess Larsen

Greg Vert

Annie Harshberger

Joanna Kuc

Aaron Cooper

Richard Florida

Payal Arora

Greg Nudelman

Jaron Lanier

Daron Acemoglu

Lisa Feldman Barrett

Kate Moran

Sarah Gibbons

Daniel Stillman

Sheryl Cababa

Jake Saper

Brad Stulberg

Cammy Crolic

David Bingham

Computer Vision
In Action