The Age of AI with Lara Lewington and Ben Clark

Laura Modiano reveals ChatGPT is only the start.

Today we’re joined by Laura Modiano. Laura leads Startups across EMEA at OpenAI, where she works closely with founders, investors, and developers building the next generation of AI companies.

Laura discusses the AI startups changing entire industries and gives a rare inside look at how founders, developers and investors are actually building with AI right now.

Laura also shares what it’s really like working inside OpenAI during one of the biggest technological shifts in modern history.

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Is this the Chat GPT moment of humanoid robot advancement?

This week on The Age of AI, we dive into one of the biggest questions in tech right now: are humans losing the race to robots?

The answer this week is - yes! A humanoid robot actually beat a human in a half marathon last week! In this episode Lara and Ben ask how developed these humanoid robots ACTUALLY are? We break down what these robots can actually do today, where the hype is running ahead of reality, and what this means for jobs, businesses, and the future of work.

Is this the next industrial revolution — or are we overestimating how ready robots really are?

🎧 Watch now and decide for yourself: evolution… or replacement?

#AI #Robotics #FutureOfWork #HumanoidRobots #ArtificialIntelligence #TechPodcast #TheAgeOfAI

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Is the AI boom about to burst… or are we only just getting started?

This week on The Age of AI, Lara Lewington and Ben Clark sit down with investor and tech thinker Ali Mitchell to unpack one of the biggest questions in tech right now: are we in an AI bubble?

From sky-high valuations to the race for dominance among tech giants, Ali cuts through the hype to explore what’s real, what’s overblown, and what happens next if the bubble does burst. We dig into how to spot genuine innovation vs. noise, what smart investors are actually looking for, and whether we’re heading for a correction—or a complete transformation of how business works.

If you’ve been wondering whether AI is the next dot-com crash or the biggest shift of our generation, this one’s for you.

🎧 Watch now and decide for yourself: bubble… or boom?

#ai #artificialintelligence #techpodcast #futureofwork #investing #startuplife #theageofai

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1 in 3 adults in the UK have used AI for mental health support — but what does that actually mean?

In this episode of The Age of AI, we explore the rapidly growing role of AI in emotional wellbeing, from therapy chatbots and AI companions to large language models people now turn to for comfort, advice, and connection.

With expert guidance from Dr Jennifer Cearns, Lecturer in AI at the Department of Social Anthropology & Centre for Digital Trust & Society at The University of Manchester

We ask:
When does a chat become emotional support?

Can AI genuinely help with mental health — or does it sometimes reinforce risk?

And what happens when people form real emotional bonds with systems that don’t truly understand them?

Alongside powerful real-world stories and expert insight, we also examine the tensions at the heart of this shift — between accessibility and safety, support and dependency, optimism and harm.

From viral cases and court debates to the rise of dedicated mental health platforms like Wysa, this episode asks a critical question:

Are we witnessing a revolution in care — or something we’re still not fully prepared for?

#ai #techpodcast #mentalhealth #therapy

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What if decades of scientific breakthroughs were already discovered… but never used?

In this episode of The Age of AI, we sit down with Sam Munday, the founder of Data Revival, a startup using AI to unlock “lost” scientific knowledge buried in handwritten lab notebooks, PDFs, and decades-old research files.

From chemical companies discovering forgotten experiments to pharmaceutical teams accelerating drug discovery, AI is now turning unstructured R&D data into usable scientific intelligence.

We explore how:

Entire breakthroughs have been unknowingly re-tested decades later

AI is digitising 40+ years of hidden scientific knowledge

Lab notebooks contain critical insights modern systems can’t access

Chemistry, materials science, and medicine could all be accelerated

This is a conversation about more than data — it’s about what humanity may have already discovered, but never fully used.
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