Good Morning, AI live with Noelle and Friends

Hi everybody, it's Noelle. Welcome back! 2026, oh my gosh, can you believe it? This is my first live of the year and I just wanted to come on. I had no plans. I actually had a meeting and realized it wasn't going to happen and was like, I think I'll go live. So here I am. Welcome, good to see you all. I missed you over the holiday. As many of you know, over the holiday period from around December 18th all the way into the day my kids go back to school, I try to just take time off. And yeah, y'all know me. I can't not work per se, because I love what I do. It doesn't feel like work. So I like thinking about the future of artificial intelligence and AI leadership. I think about it all the time. But no calls, right? No, no, you know, going anywhere, no traveling. So it was beautiful. My family and I got to spend lots of quality time together. We went ice skating and I was, I will say, the best skater. It doesn't really say much, but, but I was pretty happy to encourage my kiddos. My kiddos ended up skating. We go skating every year as part of our routine collection of traditions that we do. But this year the girls ended up skating solo. No help, no wall. It was a proud moment. For those of you on my private Instagram, y'all can see some of those details, but it was really fun. So welcome back to 2026. I am actually here because I wanted to give you a couple updates and I also want to let you know that Good Morning AI is going to be coming to you live more and more often. I have So many fun stages and events planned for this year, starting with CES. So if you are headed to CES, I hope I'll see you there. It is this week happening tomorrow. So hopefully you are headed over there. If you are, please let me know. I would love to meet you in person. Um, I am also super excited to be, uh, joined by some of my own AI leadership C-suite team at CES. So we'll be talking about that. More in just a few minutes. Um, but first and foremost, all right, let's do this. I invited some guests for the first time ever. Um, so I'm gonna see if I know how to do this. Let's see if it works out. All right, here we go. Is it happening? Are you ready, Padme? Are you ready? Is it— are we doing it? It looks like you're ready. All right, hold on. Oh, there you are! Yeah, hi!

Hi!

Here we are live! Oh my gosh.

Okay.

Say hello. Tell everyone a little bit about who you are in case they've not seen you on the live before.

Hey everyone. I'm Padmani Soni. I'm the founder of Resonance AI and the head of AI, responsible AI growth at the AI Leadership Institute founded by the amazing Noelle Russell Russell. So I'm in the responsible AI space, been in the tech space for over 25 years. I, I stopped there. I always say over 25 years, I'm not going to go beyond that.

That's right. It'll just be— it's like being 29. It's like we're 29 every year. Yeah, 25 years of experience, nobody needs to know those details.

Nobody needs to know any more dates. Excited to be here, Noelle.

I'm so excited to have you.

I'm live.

Exactly. So welcome everyone, nice to see you. Um, so I have a couple things that I thought we could talk about because you and I are headed to CES. You're actually headed Like right now, today, tomorrow?

Yeah, yeah, I'm leaving this afternoon.

All right, awesome. Do you, do you have plans? Like, what are you planning on doing while you're there?

So, Beats AI house at CES, I'm helping him with that. So I'm very excited. This is my first time at CES, so I've heard so much about it. I don't know what to expect.

So, oh my God.

Yeah.

So I'll give you my tips to do before I get there because of course we should have dinner the night before and then we'll be doing workshops on Friday. But my favorite favorite thing to do is to walk around. So there's a couple— when you go to CES, it's massive, right? There are so many different areas, but there are areas that I focus on, and you'll probably find your own special area that you like to go to. But my favorite two areas are one, home, of course, smart home. So this is like where LG and Samsung are like going at it with smart refrigerators, smart stoves.

It's super cool.

So I always go there. And then the other area is AI education, and I guess there's two areas that are tied, uh, AI education, which is like edutech and all of the different things that are going to be coming to classrooms, but then also the area of accessibility. And I mean, there's so many, but these are the ones I usually hit first. And then, uh, I, I know you might not have these, but this— I always wear these glasses so I can capture all of the demos live. Uh-oh, what'd I do? I clicked a button. My bad. Sorry, Padmini, you're coming back. Hold on. There I am. It's because my glasses fell on the keyboard. I didn't know I could hit the spacebar and you would go away. Yeah, so I have these like Ray-Ban glasses so you can click on them as you're walking around and just— oh, of course they're dead right now, but, uh, I could just walk around and take video of all of the different demonstrations. And it's also really cool, and you could do this with your smartphone, but just ask them to demonstrate for you and you could get so much content that you can use in your own channels and your own stuff.

It's pretty cool.

I know. Oh, I'm gonna do that for sure. I don't have those glasses. I don't have those Meta glasses, but I'm going to be using my phone.

Yay!

Awesome, awesome. Okay, I'm going to, uh, I have a couple things I thought we could talk about, and we're not going to be here long. It's just like a little, you know, quick get online, say hello to our friends. Um, but the first thing is that there is some really interesting news that came out, you know, before the holidays. A lot of people were talking about how I don't know, like, I think I was at an event and they asked me about the AI bubble or the AI hype and that 2026 might change things, uh, from an AI perspective. But I think it's important to kind of look at some of the macroeconomic signals. And so NVIDIA had one of its strongest Q4s ever, which means that organizations are not slowing spending on AI. They are actually increasing spending on AI, especially AI infrastructure. But I think what's different about 2026 is that we are Finally, I wrote a book on the concept of going from enthusiasm to execution. Yeah, I think 2026 is going to be a lot more about operationalizing artificial intelligence. What are you seeing? And also, you didn't tell people from where you are from. I think that's important too. So tell people where you're from and what your thoughts are on that.

So I am from the Midwest. I live one foot into Iowa, on the west side of the Mississippi. And I Coincidentally, Noelle, um, the— I heard Jeetu Patel, who's the president and chief product officer of, um, at Cisco. I heard him on, I think it was the Everyday AI podcast, and he talked about 3 blockers to AI adoption, and one of them being infrastructure. So, you know, and you mentioned the AI bubble and the AI hype, and he was talking about what is overhyped and what is underhyped. And I think what is overhyped about this whole AI thing is everybody is going to lose their jobs and we are just going to be sitting by the seaside doing nothing.

Yeah.

That is so completely not true. And what he said was underhyped is how we can use AI to actually augment our thinking in finding patterns that the humans can't, like solving cancer, for instance, or finding ways to leverage our mental capacities So I think that is underhyped. So we definitely, 2026, I'm hoping will kind of sort of move these in the opposite direction so that we come to start level setting how AI is actually viewed and do it responsibly.

Why let it?

Of course. Exactly. I feel the same way. And I think, you know, I think responsibility is going to take a slightly different perspective in the new year around, you know, again, we're moving from kind of thinking about it to being about it. And as we begin to do things and operationalize AI, there's going to be a real need for organizations to actually have practical application, right? Not just talking about how do we become responsible, not just building policies and writing documentation and creating model cards, but how does an organization actually like document all of that? Like how do they prove that the AI systems they've built are responsible? And so I think, you know, I've been talking a lot over the, break about assurance, AI assurance, and this concept of building trust with— it's almost like an insurance policy for artificial intelligence. Like, how can I ensure that when I build something that there are humans in the loop and where are they and is it audible and does it comply with the EU AI Act and the NIST, you know, regulatory guidelines? Like all of these things. I think it's such a huge and really cool opportunity. And what that means really is that Yes, of course there's technical leadership that's necessary, but it also requires really just organizational leadership. And so I'm going to bring up Skye, our part, you know, our partner in crime. Hello, Skye, are you here? Join us. She might just— oh, there you go. It's so exciting. We did it. So this, I think it's a really interesting time because as I go into organizations and I'm talking right now to a lot of life sciences organizations and these life, you know, life sciences and healthcare organizations, specifically regulatory, you know, regulated industry, healthcare, finance. I mean, it's interesting, in March, I'm speaking to 5 different banks, and they don't know that I'm talking to all of them. But they're huge banks. And I'm like, I don't know, they're all asking the same question, but they think they're asking it kind of independently, right? Like, they think they're like, I just, I want to know really quick. And the questions they're asking is, is how do we make sure that all of these things we're doing actually create a safe, responsible outcome for our business? How do we make sure that we don't hurt our customers? So I think it's pretty cool. But the good news is, is like I said, NVIDIA has increased their spending or has the demand for NVIDIA services has increased, meaning companies are investing in the hardware, in the infrastructure and the technology they are also going to have to equally invest in infrastructure to actually preserve the trust and security of these systems. And that's something that we all have worked on. Now, the next thing I wanted to talk about was a little bit about some AI capabilities. We're going to be at CES. So Padmini and I are going to be working. Pete Erickson, he runs the AI House. If you're going to be at CES, come see us at the AI House.

No, come see us.

We're going to be doing back-to-back workshops. So we have— I'll be doing 2 strategy workshops, which I'm going to be talking about my philosophy on AI assurance and building operational trust. So it'll be very exciting. But then right after that, there's a 90-day kind of blueprint exercise that you'll do with Padmini and Yuvika is going to be with you.

Yes. Yuvika and I will be doing that. It's almost like a checklist that we are building.

Yeah, exactly, exactly. And so it'll be a wonderful one-two punch, if you will. So we're really excited. Seats are selling out, so come on over. But as a result of that, I wanted to, of course, welcome Skye. Thank you for joining us, our operational, you know, back end of the, the— I think your, your time, you know, you've been kind of educating yourself on, on all the things AI leadership over the last year with our group. But you, I think, are going to hit your stride this coming year because people are going to need to know how to actually manage this work. And that's kind of your specialty. Tell everyone who you are and a little bit about what you do.

Sure. Hello, everyone. I am Skyman Evans. I am the COO for the AI Leadership Institute. And what do I do? I help everyday leaders understand AI as a thought— think partner. Not just a tool that you use every day. Um, so from an operations perspective, I'm always thinking of how can we simplify this process, how can we amplify the, the organization and the, the processes that we've put in place to make it more efficient for ourselves and make work easier, not harder. So that is ultimately my goal. Um, but I also need reminders, so reminders always come into play with AI as well. So those reminders and using the right tools to keep us honest and within the right structure that I use that as well.

Yes, I love it. I love it. So I was looking up, you know, over the last 2 weeks, I kind of went a little quiet in our communities and spent time with the family, but I can't help but be, you know, keep up to date with what's happening. And of course CES is coming down the pipe. So there's all these cool new tools that are out. And I'd be interested to know if you guys either got new cool tech of your own over Christmas? I certainly did. I did get a new Surface, a new Copilot PC. So we'll be setting that up in our AI Leadership Institute together. But I also got something crazy, which is called— I don't know if you've heard of this. It's called a learning glass. You heard of it? The learning glass. You should look it up. This one is actually called— I think it was a Reflection something. I can't remember the name of the company that did it, but the learning glass. I don't know if you've ever seen these YouTube videos where someone's writing on a, on a clear pane of glass. And but you could see what they're writing even though they're— it's very fancy. So anyway, I'm super excited. I set it up yesterday, so I will be doing a session. We'll see, maybe I'll even use it for our Design Your Life session in our community this week. But that's, you know, I've got now a Copilot PC. And the special thing about that is it's neural processing unit, right? So I can now run more AI on device without actually impacting the CPU or any of the other applications that are running. So I'm super excited about that. One thing that was a little, little challenging though, is that, and I'm sure you all know this, but the Copilot is tied to my, like, personal Copilot account, not my, like, professional Copilot account and all my stuff anyway. So there's, there's some weird backlash going on in the world of Microsoft right now around this. I'm not going to reuse the term because I don't want to contribute to the backlash. But they're saying it's a little bit weird that you have this like dichotomy of professional and personal and there's not an easy way to switch them. Like it's built for personal, which is weird because Microsoft owns like 90% of the Fortune 500 professional environment. So that being said, I'm like, I'm not sure how that's going to work out. But here is what Satya Nadella has been focused on over the last few days, is really encouraging people to think about integration and encouraging people to think about that it's both/and, not either/or. And I will tell you, I kind of was an either/or person, right? I was kind of like, I'm not using personal, I'm only using professional. And his philosophy, and rightly so, it is the future. I think he's looking into the future, is that he wants us to use both of them. And both should inform. I should be able to use the personal Copilot to help me plan out my meals for the week with my kids, and then I should be able to go and switch to the professional Copilot that knows where my SharePoint directory and all that content is. It's just not easy right now. So I'm hoping that friction is removed. I think Microsoft has stated publicly that they're going to be really focusing on reducing that friction and increasing the integration. But I get it. I get why people are a little frustrated right now, but I'm excited. I got my Copilot PC. It's going to be the system I use with my learning glass. It's already up there. I'd show it to you right now, but it's upstairs in my studio. So, so that's pretty exciting. Another device at CES. And again, I want to give you guys a chance if you have— if you're thinking about a device you want to talk about or something that came up. I don't think I brought anything. I mean, we already talked about a few, but another device that came up that I actually gifted to my husband this year is a Samsung, a new projector. And we have a projector. We have one of those big inflatable screens that goes in back of our house. So at Christmas and Halloween and during the summer, we watch movies outside. And one of the challenges is, is that I've got a projector and I have a big— I wish I could show it to you, it's over there— a big like stand that the projector sits on, and I have to like move it back and move it up to kind of get it right on the screen perfectly. And then sometimes it's at a weird slant and I'm like, ah, it's fine, you can't see the captions. So this new Samsung device projector, it has— I think I wrote it down, maybe I didn't— but it has auto focus and auto scaling. So it has the ability to— and it makes sense— it uses computer vision to detect your screen size, and then without you having to move it around, it automatically moves it so that it works perfectly every time. And I'll tell you, that's like 10 hours of my life I get back this year. So I'm super excited about it. But yeah, we're big movie people, so I was really excited to see that. What about either of you? Have you played around with the new device? Got any new Christmas gear you want to talk about?

So talking of projectors, my husband got a Christmas gift, which was you can connect a projector to the phone, you know, and now you can just use your phone instead of screencasting to a TV. You can just use your phone anywhere and project onto a blank space. So I thought that was pretty— yeah, I thought that was really cool.

So yes, I actually thought about that because in our bedroom, like we when you look out at the windows, there's a big like, uh, blind that you can pull down, and it's good twice the size of our TV. And I was like, we could just use that. And I was like, no, uh, he has bigger plans. He's like, I need a 90-inch screen TV. Um, and I will tell you, I have always said that TVs are like on this downward slope of getting cheaper and cheaper and cheaper. There is still a room at Best Buy that has ridiculously expensive televisions in it. It is the future of TV, and they are pretty fancy. Uh, but yeah, we're not, we're not doing that. I told him like, either it's on wall, or you have to live with the TV that you got. You did not get a TV for Christmas.

I need a new remote, Noelle, for my TV because I am still going left, left, left, clicking on the, you know.

Oh no. Yeah, yes. Well, I mean, I'm a big Fire TV— we're Fire TV people. We have Fire TVs in almost every room, um, and so we're big on voice-enabled, uh, remotes. So we'll see. Yeah, what about you, Sky? Did you get any fun tech gadgets Yes.

So originally my response would be no, but this morning, like literally this morning, nice surprise with the Ray-Ban Meta 2.

Oh my God.

So literally I just opened up the box. I have not opened up the glasses yet and set them up, so I'm excited to, um, try them out. I was like, oh, there's a, you know, charge button here.

Yes, fancy.

This is as far as I got, and I was like, okay, this is a nice, you know, yes, present.

Right before you joined, actually, we were just talking about how when you go to events, it's really nice, especially events with booths and you can talk to like booth staff, that you can just put on these glasses and like record conversations with the staff at the booth. And I wouldn't ask hard questions like, what's your responsible AI policy? Because they get all nervous. But like, let them shine and show you whatever they're there to show you. And, and it's great content for your social media. And it's also really cool because most people aren't at CES, even though they have like 70,000 people, 130,000, 150,000. I can't even remember. A huge number of people, over 100,000 people, I think, are at CES this year. Um, so of course, but still, that's not everybody. And so it's a really great opportunity for you to like capture moments and share them. Um, I'm excited. Just every time I see you, I'm like, where's your Ray-Bans? Like, where's the story?

Yes. And I was like, oh, so I'm gonna get my prescription lenses too. So that's going to be another, another task. Within the next month or so, I was like, oh, I can set this up really so I can use these every day.

So I'm excited. Yes. All right. So as we were just talking about the prescription and then— Oh yeah. Oh well, yeah, mine don't, unfortunately. So I have to be like, I put them on there. I'm like, hold on one second.

Let me get my real glasses.

But also every time I go on stage, I wear these and I've been wearing them like these are old. These are like the original version. So they're like 3 years old maybe. But they still work. That's the thing about tech, right? Like, what do you do if your tech still works? I have so much tech that I'm now outgrowing that I, I mean, you know, I did— I will tell you, I have a nonprofit, um, called Lift Up Tech. We actually are in the process of applying for the Win AI grant with Melinda Gates. Remember we talked about it as a community? Um, and you know, I was like, maybe we create a give-back system that allows us to, right? Like many of us have kids though, we could just give it to our kids. But sometimes they don't want my tech. They're like, that's old tech, mom. You're like grandma tech. But there's plenty of, you know, schools, plenty of even like mental health professionals that might like some of our— I mean, I have Alexa devices that are still in the box, right? Like that I never opened. And now there's new ones. So I'm never going to open that one. I'm only going to open new ones. And so Um, Alexa Plus has kind of changed my whole life. I love Alexa Plus. I don't know if you've talked to her yet. Um, so cute. Okay, thanks. Um, yeah, so anyway, I guess I got to be careful about that. Uh, but really cool, really cool. Okay, so the last thing before we go, I— and, and of course I'm gonna— oh, I should open up the chat. We got some people saying hi. What? Hello everyone, look at what Westwood McDonald's in the house. What's up?

West.

Wes and I met on stage this year. Ruth is in the house. Y'all know Ruth, that's so cool. Nasli, um, oh my gosh, Nasli's in the house. Uh, oh, um, this is so cool. Oh, a new smartwatch. Yes, I did not get a new smartwatch, but as I like to— I did gift a new smartwatch to my mom. So, and then as soon as I gave it to my mom, I'm like, you know, my mom doesn't need that much. Like, she doesn't need as much as my dad. I should have given it to my dad. Um, anyway, so my dad's gonna get one too, it just won't be for Christmas. Um, yes. Oh my gosh, this is so cool. Well, great to see you all. This is pretty neat. Um, oh, uh, Muhammad, sorry, hopefully you don't want me to call you out. That's cool. Uh, anyway, nice to see you all. Thank you all for joining us live. Here we go, uh, with the last thing I wanted us to talk about today, which is a crazy thing that happened over New Year's there was a hallucination. Um, basically a bunch of people— I shouldn't say a bunch, a few people created AI content around an event that was going to happen on— in Brooklyn Bridge in New York City. And I'm from New York. Um, and they basically create a bunch of content and they used old Fourth of July photos on Brooklyn Bridge and they basically said, hey, come on out to Brooklyn Bridge. And a bunch of people showed up at Brooklyn Bridge expecting a New Year's Eve fireworks display and never, never saw it because it was all a hallucination. What's worse is that the people who promoted those, uh, fake news social media posts, it was so compelling that ChatGPT scraped that content. And actually, when people were like, hey, it became a reinforcing, like, self-fulfilling prophecy where people were like, hey, ChatGPT, what's going on tonight? Where can I see fireworks? Those fake fireworks display content showed up in those. So it kind of reinforced the fact that, yeah, it actually is happening. Anyway, so I thought we could talk a little bit about, like, you know, the— I don't know, sometimes I feel like we're in a little bubble where we feel like we've talked about hallucination and we've talked about managing that, and then this happens, and I'm like, or have we? Um, do we know that AI systems, you know, like at the bottom of ChatGPT, it still says I can be wrong. I can, I can lie. I could tell you a, a non-truth. Um, so would be really interested in both of your perspectives on this, you know, crazy situation. One, like, in the air, in the era of responsible AI, like, who's responsible for this? Like, the city was like, hey, we didn't post anything about that, but are they responsible for like monitoring posts? Are they, you know, like, I don't know, what do y'all think?

Do you want me to go first? I, I think it's really hard. I think it's really hard for the city to do that because there are so many people doing all of this. Um, but, but going back to that disclaimer that you said about ChatGPT, I feel that that should always exist because I think it's so hard to remove complete— I mean, make it completely hallucination-free as I see it right now.

Most of the world doesn't use protected models, right? Most of the world is just going to ChatGPT in the wild and expecting it to be truthful, even if it says, I will lie to you. Um, so yeah, I think that's— yeah, I think you're right. I think that's very difficult, um, to manage. What about you, Sky?

So for me, I think this is a reminder to people of how to use AI responsibly and ethically and know that there are certain things or checks and balances you need to have. So just as Pat Maney said, check the disclaimer, but it's also making sure that you slow down, check the source, see if it really is true, um, understanding the transparency of that system that you're using, where you're getting that information from as well, because there's a lot of different AI tools out there where some of the information is not always transparent. Transparent. So instead of people becoming fearful of AI, because I feel like this did trigger some fear for other people to use the technology, that they need to choose awareness. Because ultimately AI can be extremely powerful if it's used in the right way. So I feel like the more that people understand how this tool in the system, especially on the back end, how they scrape data and things in that manner work, that they can understand how AI can really go wrong and there's better ways that they can go about it.

Absolutely. And I, I think there's a— we started, you know, it's a great way to end is kind of going back and looping back to the way we started, which is talking about kind of the new era of operationally operationalizing AI, right? Like, how are we going to make sure that as we deploy these systems that they are safe? And I do think that there is a responsibility on behalf of like, you know, federal agencies and state and local governments that they do now have to take responsibility for potentially You know, bad actors, right? Submitting false information. I feel like there's AI for that. We can easily create an agent that's going to check for those things and then provide counter, right, responses, provide posts that say that's not true. Only one it would have taken, but it didn't. It kept perpetuating the idea that, yeah, it's true, it's happening. Come on out, everybody. It'll be great. So I think there is a new responsibility. And with that, as I mentioned earlier, there's this concept of assurance, like how do we give confidence to these organizations that the AI that they're building is safe, secure, responsible, auditable, that there is a human in the loop. That's another thing. If there was a human in the loop watching, right, the social media, I would hope that if my job is to protect the residents of Brooklyn, right, or the residents of the five boroughs who might come out to the Brooklyn Bridge to watch the fireworks, Someone's looking at that, even if it wasn't AI, even if it was just a human saying, hey, come on out here and it's fake. Like, there should be processes. And now more than ever, state, local governments, municipalities can just build an AI system that would just provide a very simple, that's actually not true, or the only place to find reputable event information is on our website. If it's not on our website, it doesn't exist. I, I just think there's a little bit more responsibility that I think these organizations will need. And in 2026, right, I can assure you that all of these federal, local, state and local governments, municipalities, small businesses, we're all going to be using AI at an even greater level, if you can imagine, than we did in 2025. What's different this year is you're going to want to do it in a way that you can tell when did it start, when did it stop, what models are we using, how are they using it, how are we auditing it? And here's the good news. You don't actually have to do all of that work. There are control planes that you can use to actually monitor this behavior. And so that's some of the things that we're going to talk about this year as you all move from, you know, excitement and enthusiasm to execution. As you start operationalizing your AI systems, how do you make sure you, you have a system that can, can promise your users that you're not going to do anything a little shady? Like, oh man, could you imagine taking your kids out to Brooklyn Bridge Waiting 4 hours.

So sad. And Noelle, it goes back to what you were saying about even for security, the shared responsibility framework, right? I think, yes, you're 100%, the organization should have that agent that keeps checking. And like Skye said, trust but verify. We as humans, I mean, as consumers of that information, we should. So yeah, it's, it's going to be, it's going to be different.

Yes. And Tara's here. What's up, Tara? Thanks for staying with us. Um, as we close out, Tara mentioned, you know, I think it's incumbent on individuals to double-check, just like you said, right? Trust but verify. But honestly, it's like verify and verify. Like, don't trust at all, right? Like, I'm not sure trust is inherent in the future that we're in, and I think that's kind of sad. You all remember at the end of last year I talked about a book called Talking with Strangers or something like that from Malcolm Gladwell. And he talks about a world where if we're all paranoid, society actually breaks down. Like we can't all be thinking someone's out to get us and some— we can't think everything is fake or everything isn't real. But I do think we have to, as organizations, provide a trustworthy framework and a trustworthy system that allows someone to look at a piece of content and go, was that created by the city, right? These types of stamps right now— Adobe, I don't know if you know, but Adobe already includes metadata on content that says whether it's AI-created or not. The challenge with that is metadata— there's only like 20% of the world, maybe that's even a lot, 8% of the world that even understands what metadata is or how to look for it. Kim is in the house, what's up Kim? Uh, awareness, not fear. Yes, exactly. And Natalie, Added in, AI needs to have strict guardrails. Yes, I agree, but those guardrails have to go beyond talk, right? We can't just talk. I mean, last year we talked about it and people are implementing and that's great. This year we need technology to actually support it. I was talking about last year this concept of constitutional AI. Well, this year you're going to see the AI Leadership Institute, we're going to be building out this, this control plane effort to allow you to just say, Hey, I'm going to ingest an inventory of AI systems and I want to go through a checklist, which maybe is part of the checklist we're going to cover at CES. Like, what are all the things and how do I make sure, how do I stay compliant? How do I stay in alignment? Not compliant with, though, yes, the, the, you know, EU AI Act or, you know, NIST or any of these other frameworks. How do I just stay compliant with the promises I've made to my clients? With the commitment I made as an organization, those promises are just as important as the compliance promises as well. So really exciting. I hope you enjoyed coming online and testing this out live with me, Sky.

No, it's really exciting. But just to add to that, I think that's where responsible AI leaders and the AI leadership essentials that you have taught us is really imperative for these organizations. Um, because you can't lead AI without understanding the backend of it. That's the most important piece I think people are missing. Like, hey, I want to throw AI out there, I want to use it, I want to do it because I want to be one of the first people, but they don't take the time in the backend from operationalized perspective to really set up the right processes, tools, and guardrails to get them where they need to be to prevent those issues from happening down the line.

So Absolutely. And Tracy Thornton's in the house. So thank you, Tracy. And she, of course, is one of our leaders, one of our members, one of the people who's been with us, OGs, as they say. So it's great to have you in the house, Matthew. Of course, you know, we're doing something right when someone comes in and like promotes their own thing. So, yay, thanks for being here, Matthew. You definitely take a look at Clause 5 Save— oh, Clause 5 Save. I don't know what it is.

Very cool.

We'd love to have you on and talk about what you're doing there. And now she just, oh, finished a book. All right. So take a look. If you are not on LinkedIn checking out the chats that are happening there, it is live. Lots of cool stuff, amazing people. I'm so glad that this popped into your feed and that you got a chance to hang out with us. First one of the new year. We're going to be doing so many more of these. We're just going to take the daily news, break it down. I, as an executive, Padmini as a responsible AI expert, and Sky as our operational— like, I just think it's a great diverse perspective to look at the daily news. Happening in the world of AI. So thanks for joining us all, and we'll see you next time. Bye, everybody.

Thank you.

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