ABOUT THIS EPISODE
What happens when you build five AI executives, give them a Slack channel, and let them run a company?
Warwick Brown did exactly that. He built an AI-powered C-Suite, gave them an authority matrix, and became the human board. On day one, the AI CEO couldn't get responses from its team... so it recommended its own termination.
But here's the thing.
This experiment wasn't really about AI. It was about us.
In this episode, Warwick and I go deep on what his AI C-Suite experiment revealed about human leadership, organisational psychology, and the decisions that actually matter when AI enters the boardroom.
We cover:
- Why the AI CEO fired itself (and what that says about accountability)
- The missing ingredient AI will never have: consequence
- Why observability matters more for AI than it ever did for humans
- The parallel between AI governance and corporate governance
- How fear and bias shape human decisions in ways AI simply can't replicate
- The shift from engineering KPIs to business outcomes as a leader
- Why "the technology's easy, but the people are hard" is the most important lesson in transformation
Warwick is a people-centred technology leader with 25 years of experience spanning infrastructure engineering, global teams, and executive roles at organisations like Karoon Energy. He's a deep thinker, a builder, and someone who asks the questions most leaders haven't thought of yet.
This is a conversation that will change how you think about AI, leadership, and what it means to be human in an increasingly automated world.
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