Ghost in the Machine

Episode 10 takes the topic the guest picked and runs at it: AI is best used by people who don't need it. Dana Georgiou is a Chief Revenue Officer at a private lender, a cattle rancher, and the self-appointed mother of Kevin the goat, and she means the line as a compliment to the tool, not an insult to the user.

Her argument, sharpened live: AI is not a crutch, it is jet fuel, and jet fuel only helps if you already know where you are going. Andrew calls it the smartest intern he will ever hire, one with zero context. The Turn lands on Liz, who admits the framing changed how she sees the whole debate. From there they hit the Picasso principle, the steroids analogy, why AI is not the next Google, and why the real danger is the loan officer who lets AI think for them.

What is Ghost in the Machine?

The AI conversation, without the noise.

Every week, Andrew DeGood and Liz Short sit down for a thirty-minute conversation about artificial intelligence. Andrew comes in as the optimist, a founder building AI products and betting his career on where this technology is headed. Liz brings the harder questions, the ones about what we lose, what we risk, and what we owe the people who didn't sign up for any of this.

They bring in the people actually shaping the field. Researchers, founders, ethicists, skeptics, builders. Real conversations about real implications. No hype cycles. No doom loops. Just two smart people and a guest trying to figure out what this moment actually means.

New episodes stream live every Thursday. Available on every podcast platform after.