Human Layer AI

Human Layer AI explores how leaders, creators, and professionals use artificial intelligence without losing the human edge. Hosted by Aakarsh Sharma — law graduate (BA LL.B. Hons), applied psychology background, and AI strategist. Every episode stress-tests how AI actually lands in real people's work: the decisions it changes, the professions it disrupts, and the layer of human judgment it still can't replace. Each conversation sits at the intersection of AI accountability, AI ethics, and cognitive bias in AI — examining how technology reshapes decision-making, communication, and professional responsibility. Topics we cover: → AI governance and the EU AI Act → AI bias and how it distorts decisions → Professional displacement across law, medicine, and finance → AI and psychology — how AI is changing therapy, diagnosis, and mental health → Artificial intelligence and law — legal liability, IP, and the courtroom <p

Human Layer AI is a technology podcast hosted by Aakarsh Sharma, with 11 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Aakarsh Sharma hosts Human Layer AI, a technology show with 11 episodes published.

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  The Only Skill AI Can't Learn: Julian Treasure on Listening

  Mar 31, 202634 minS0

  <p>What if the one thing AI can never do... is listen?</p><p>Julian Treasure has more TED Talk hours than any human alive — 5 talks, 160M+ views. He's the author of Sound Affects and founder of The Listening Society. In this conversation, he breaks down why listening is a skill (not a reflex), why AI can hear but not truly listen, and what the global listening crisis is doing to democracy.</p><p>We cover the RASA framework, designing AI that honours human communication, and one 3-minute daily practice that makes you a better speaker AND listener.</p><p>🌐 Join...

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  AI Has No Conscience. Here's Why That's Dangerous.

  Mar 28, 202628 minS0

  <p>Most AI companies will tell you their systems are ethical. Wendell Wallach — one of the founding voices of AI ethics — says that's not even close to true.</p><p>In this episode, we sit down with the author of "Moral Machines" and "A Dangerous Master" to ask the question nobody in Silicon Valley wants answered: if AI can't feel, can't reflect, and has no conscience — who is actually responsible when it goes wrong?</p><p>The answer is more unsettling than you'd expect.</p><p>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🕐 CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━</p><p>00:00 Introduction 00:44 From Moral Machines to A Dangerous Master: What Changed 02:25 Can AI Actually Be Moral? (Spoiler: Probably Not) 04:01 Why Emotions Are Non-Negotiable in Ethical Decisions 05:00 The Silent Eth...

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  Peter Singer: Why AI Gets Ethics Wrong

  Mar 24, 202631 minS0

  <p>What happens when an AI system claims to maximize human welfare — but systematically harms specific individuals?</p><p>In this episode, Aakarsh Sharma sits down with Peter Singer — Princeton philosopher, author of Animal Liberation, and co-creator of Effective Altruism — to examine whether AI is truly doing utilitarian ethics, or just borrowing its language.</p><p>They get into COMPAS, Optum, and Allegheny — three real AI systems that fail people at the individual level. Peter explains why training data built on historical bias can't produce fair outcomes, and draws a sharp line between what utilitarianism actually demands versus what these systems...

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  AI Won't Heal You — A Therapist-CTO's Warning | Jeremy G. Schneider

  Mar 21, 202632 minS0

  <p>Can AI be your therapist? Jeremy G. Schneider says it's not that simple — and the stakes are higher than most people realize.</p><p>Jeremy is a licensed master social worker (LMSW) and the founder of Build On Your Strengths, a mental health education platform that sits at the intersection of technology and clinical practice. He's spent years watching people use AI as an emotional outlet, and he came on Human Layer AI with a clear-eyed take: AI can mimic empathy, but it has never felt pain. That difference matters more than you think.</p><p>In this episode, we...

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  AI Is Making You Think Less — And No One Is Accountable | Ruth Carter

  Mar 17, 202639 minS0

  <p>What if the biggest risk of AI isn't your job — it's your mind?</p><p>Ruth Carter, AI Governance Specialist and creator of the Continuum Framework, introduces a concept she calls cognitive atrophy: the measurable erosion of your analytical capacity every time you outsource thinking to a system designed to comfort you rather than challenge you.</p><p>In this conversation, Ruth and Aakarsh go deep on why AI ethics has been made deliberately unprofitable, who actually bears the consequences when AI gets things wrong, and what it would take to build AI that genuinely serves humanity instead of ju...

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