Founder
The AI Lyceum
Wisdom over intelligence. A platform, a podcast and a community for people who want to think carefully about artificial intelligence rather than react to it.
Why I built it
The public conversation about AI moves between hype and alarm, and skips the part in the middle where the actual decisions are made. I wanted somewhere those decisions could be examined slowly, with people who know the material: researchers, engineers, philosophers and practitioners who have had to make something work.
The name is deliberate. The Lyceum was a place for walking and arguing, not broadcasting. That is the intended posture — curiosity first, positions second.
What lives there: the podcast and its full archive, publications including The AI Republic, experiments and open projects, and a community of members from research labs, agencies and universities.
36
episodes published
As of September 2026
Fortnightly
release rhythm
New conversations every other week
4
listening platforms
Spotify, Apple, Amazon Music, YouTube
The podcast
Who comes on
Each episode is a long conversation with one person who has done the work. Guests have included TIME100 AI roboticist Professor Benjamin Rosman, Peter Danenberg of Google DeepMind, James Wang of Cerebras, IBM Research's Professor Claudio Pinhanez, Dr Daniel Hulme of Satalia and WPP, Magic AI co-founder Sunil Jindal, and Scope3's Brian O'Kelley.
- Google DeepMind
- Cerebras
- IBM Research
- IAB Tech Lab
- UC Berkeley
- UCL
- Kellogg School of Management
- University of the Witwatersrand
- Satalia / WPP
- Ogilvy
- Scope3
- Magic AI
- Wondercraft
- Moonpig
- LMU Munich
- CUNY
Episode 36 · 10 September 2026
Is AI making us less capable?
Professor Sven Nyholm
AI ethics, LMU Munich
Episode 35 · 24 August 2026
How AI is changing business — and the human skills that still matter
Dipika Sawhney
Google
Episode 34 · 12 July 2026
If AI becomes conscious, does it deserve rights?
Anna Mikeda
AI psychology researcher
Episode 33 · 16 June 2026
Should AI be in the classroom? The human cost of generative AI
Professor Wayne Holmes
UCL
Episode 32 · 26 May 2026
Robots are leaving the lab: physical AI, humanoids and the future of work
Sacha Ghiglione
Robotics
Episode 31 · 18 May 2026
How AI changes what we believe
Dr Jana Sedláková
AI ethics researcher
Publications
The AI Republic
Philosophy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. A Socratic dialogue in six acts, with critical commentary, published through The AI Lyceum on 24 February 2026 and free to read in full.
The dialogue was produced with three independent Claude models from Anthropic working in isolation, then edited and commented on by the author. The text is timestamped on the Bitcoin blockchain via OpenTimestamps, so the published version can be verified against its original SHA-256 hash.
Endorsement
“Superb!”
Dr Daniel Hulme
CEO of Satalia and Chief AI Officer, WPP
Advisory
The AI Lyceum Advisory
Advisory work informed by the same thinking is available directly from me today. If you want help deciding where AI belongs in your organisation, start here.
Have a question, a project or an idea worth exploring?
I read every enquiry myself. Tell me what you are trying to decide or change, and I will tell you honestly whether I can help.