Ghost in the Machine

Wilqo Chief of Staff Tom Morelli joins Andrew DeGood and Liz Short to ask what people will bring to work when AI can retrieve, remix, and explain almost anything on demand. The conversation starts with a practical problem: expertise has always been built through entry-level work, mistakes, exceptions, and repetition. What happens when the jobs that teach those lessons disappear?

Tom argues that human connection becomes more valuable as digital communication gets cheaper and less trustworthy. Andrew sees a future built around storytelling, relationships, and creation. Liz pushes on the part optimism often skips: access. If technology remains expensive or unevenly distributed, abundance for a few can deepen scarcity for everyone else.

The episode lands on a sharper distinction. Information can be commoditized. Discernment, trust, and the ability to turn knowledge into responsible action must be earned through practice, consequence, and human contact.


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.