In this episode of AI Delve Shorts, host Pete is joined by Sridhar "Sid" Ravilla, a technology transformation executive and author of AI 360. Sid discusses his transition from a 25-year career defined by "raw effort" and 70-hour weeks to a leadership style focused on strategy, people, and the responsible implementation of AI. The conversation explores the inherent risks of AI when it is disconnected from human oversight. Sid emphasizes that while AI provides incredible scale, "humans also need to scale without which AI is going to fail". He identifies leadership judgment as the "missing 90 degrees" of a full 360-degree understanding of AI, serving as the essential safeguard against technological overreach

In this episode of AI Delve Shorts, host Pete welcomes Sridhar "Sid" Ravilla, a technology transformation executive and the author of AI 360. Sid shares his professional journey, including how he leveraged AI for personal branding to transition from a 25-year career in corporate leadership to becoming a consultant and author. The conversation explores the essential balance between the rapid advancement of technology and the need for human oversight. Sid discusses his "leadership series" of books, specifically highlighting that while AI allows for incredible scale, "humans also need to scale, without which AI is going to fail". He introduces the concept of the "missing 90 degrees" in AI implementation: leadership judgment...

Part 2 of my interview with John Kammer, the founder of a Guardian Angels, which lets people build and talk to an AI version of a person they have lost. He came to this not as a technologist looking for a market, but through his own grief, after losing three close friends over the space of a decade, and after a conversation with his wife that made him confront how much he had been avoiding.

What follows is a genuinely candid account of how that grief led to a product, and it raises questions that do not resolve neatly. If a conversation with an AI brings someone comfort, does it matter that the person on the other end of it does not exist? Where is the line between a tool that helps someone process what they could not say in time, and one that lets them avoid living in reality? John has built privacy into the platform as a founding principle, so that these conversations are not stored, monitored or monetised. But that same privacy means there is no one watching if a conversation starts to go somewhere dangerous, and he is candid about that trade-off too.

There is also a quieter tension running through the conversation, between John's own experience of grief, which shaped every design decision in this platform, and the very different experiences of the people who might use it. What worked for him, apologising to a friend, asking a question he never got to ask, may not map onto everyone's grief, particularly where the person being grieved caused harm rather than comfort.

But what do you think?

What does it mean to have a conversation with someone who is no longer alive to have it?

In this episode I speak with John, the founder of a platform called Guardian Angels which lets people build and talk to an AI version of a person they have lost. He came to this not as a technologist looking for a market, but through his own grief, after losing three close friends over the space of a decade, and after a conversation with his wife that made him confront how much he had been avoiding.

What follows is a genuinely candid account of how that grief led to a product, and it raises questions that do not resolve neatly. If a conversation with an AI brings someone comfort, does it matter that the person on the other end of it does not exist? Where is the line between a tool that helps someone process what they could not say in time, and one that lets them avoid living in reality? John has built privacy into the platform as a founding principle, so that these conversations are not stored, monitored or monetised. But that same privacy means there is no one watching if a conversation starts to go somewhere dangerous, and he is candid about that trade-off too.

There is also a quieter tension running through the conversation, between John's own experience of grief, which shaped every design decision in this platform, and the very different experiences of the people who might use it. What worked for him, apologising to a friend, asking a question he never got to ask, may not map onto everyone's grief, particularly where the person being grieved caused harm rather than comfort.

I do not think this conversation settles any of that. I am not sure it is meant to.

What happens when you outsource thinking and decision-making to AI? An interview with Sridhar Ravilla, the author of AI 360.

This time, we meet https://aroussi.com/post/building-a-lean-ai-powered-company. Ran has built alean AI-powered company in which agents handle everything from:

• Planning and project management
• Client communications and account management
• Scheduling and updates
• Quality assurance and testing
• Simple coding and repetitive dev tasks
• Reporting, follow-ups, and documentation

Enjoy!

Bruce Randall is optimistic but our discussion was much more nuanced than that. Bruce is described as “a tech visionary and Reiki Master,” blending over 25 years in cloud strategy and leadership roles at Oracle and AT&T with deep spiritual and technological insight.

What You’ll Learn

• How Bruce bridges AI, human consciousness, and healing through practices like Reiki and meditation Humans + AI.

• His journey from tech leadership to inner alignment via meditation and energy work.

• Reflections on the polarizing narrative of “woke AI” and the importance of retaining humanity in a tech-driven future.

• The risks and magic of AI—from brain-computer interfaces to conscious harmonisation.

  
  

  We will also go to the Edulearn Conference in Palma, Mallorca, where educators explore AI ethics, tech integration, and human value.

Want to know how AI tuition can close the attainment gap at scale in mathematics? In this episode, Tom Hooper, the CEO and Founder of Third Space Learning, talks about the practicalities, science and context of AI tuition.