#313 Evan Reiser: How Abnormal AI Protects Humans with Behavioral AI
Release Date: 01/16/2026
#328 Kevin Tian: Exploring Doppel's AI-Native Social Engineering Defense Platform
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AI is changing more than just productivity. It’s changing what we can trust. In this episode, Kevin Tian, Co-founder and CEO of Doppel, breaks down how AI is enabling a new wave of social engineering attacks—from deepfake phone calls to impersonation across LinkedIn, YouTube, and search engines. The reality is this:Deepfakes are just one part of a much bigger problem. Attackers are now operating across multiple channels at once, using AI to manipulate people, not just systems. And as these attacks scale, the real risk isn’t just fraud or data loss—it’s the erosion of trust in...
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#327 Baris Gultekin: The Next Phase of AI - Agents That Understand Your Company’s Data
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This episode is sponsored by Modulate. Meet Velma, voice AI that detects tone, intent, and stress: Baris Gultekin, Head of AI at Snowflake, breaks down how enterprise AI is actually being built, deployed, and scaled today. From running AI directly inside governed data environments to enabling natural language access across entire organizations, this conversation explores the shift from experimentation to real-world impact. You’ll learn why Snowflake’s core philosophy centers around bringing AI to the data, how data agents are transforming decision-making across teams, and...
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#326 Zuzanna Stamirowska: Inside Pathway's Post-Transformer Architecture Designed for Memory and On-the-Fly Learning
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This episode is sponsored by tastytrade. Trade stocks, options, futures, and crypto in one platform with low commissions and zero commission on stocks and crypto. Built for traders who think in probabilities, tastytrade offers advanced analytics, risk tools, and an AI-powered Search feature. Learn more at This episode dives into why Pathway’s Baby Dragon Hatchling (BDH) might mark the beginning of the post-transformer era in AI. Zuzanna Stamirowska, Pathway’s CEO and co‑author of BDH, explains why today’s transformer-based LLMs hit a wall on long-horizon reasoning, how memory...
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#325 Phelim Brady: Why AI's Future Depends on Human Judgement
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AI often looks fully automated. But behind the scenes, a huge amount of human judgment is shaping how these systems actually work. In this episode, Craig Smith speaks with Phelim Bradley, co-founder and CEO of Prolific, a platform that connects millions of real people with researchers and AI labs to evaluate and improve AI systems. They explore the hidden human layer behind modern AI, why traditional benchmarks are becoming less reliable, and why AI companies increasingly rely on real human feedback to measure model performance in the real world. Phelim also explains how...
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#324 Sharon Zhou: Inside AMD’s Plan to Build Self-Improving AI
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AI is not just getting smarter. It is getting faster by learning how to optimize the hardware it runs on. In this episode, Sharon Zhou, VP of AI at AMD and former Stanford AI researcher, explains how language models are beginning to write and optimize their own GPU kernel code. We explore what self improving AI actually means, how reinforcement learning is used in post training, and why kernel optimization could be one of the most overlooked scaling levers in modern AI. Sharon breaks down how GPU efficiency impacts the cost of training and inference, why catastrophic forgetting remains a...
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#323 David Ha: Why Model Merging Could Be the Next AI Breakthrough
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This episode is sponsored by tastytrade. Trade stocks, options, futures, and crypto in one platform with low commissions and zero commission on stocks and crypto. Built for traders who think in probabilities, tastytrade offers advanced analytics, risk tools, and an AI-powered Search feature. Learn more at Artificial intelligence is reaching a turning point. Instead of building bigger and bigger models, what if the real breakthrough comes from letting AI evolve? In this episode of Eye on AI, David Ha, Co-Founder and CEO of Sakana AI, explains why evolutionary strategies and collective...
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#322 Amanda Luther: The Widening AI Value Gap (Inside BCG's AI Research)
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In this episode of Eye on AI, Craig Smith speaks with Amanda Luther, Senior Partner at Boston Consulting Group and global lead of BCG’s AI Transformation practice, about what their latest 1,500-company AI study reveals about the widening gap between AI leaders and laggards. Only 5% of companies are truly “future-built” with AI embedded across their core business functions. These firms are seeing measurable gains in revenue growth, EBIT margins, and shareholder returns. Meanwhile, 60% of organizations are either experimenting or struggling to extract real value. Amanda breaks down how BCG...
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#321 Nick Frosst: Why Cohere Is Betting on Enterprise AI, Not AGI
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This episode is sponsored by tastytrade. Trade stocks, options, futures, and crypto in one platform with low commissions and zero commission on stocks and crypto. Built for traders who think in probabilities, tastytrade offers advanced analytics, risk tools, and an AI-powered Search feature. Learn more at In this episode of Eye on AI, Nick Frosst, Co-Founder of Cohere and former Google Brain researcher, explains why Cohere is betting on enterprise AI instead of chasing AGI. While much of the AI industry is focused on artificial general intelligence, Cohere is building...
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#320 Carter Huffman: Exploring The Architecture Behind Modulate's Next-Gen Voice AI
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This episode is sponsored by tastytrade. Trade stocks, options, futures, and crypto in one platform with low commissions and zero commission on stocks and crypto. Built for traders who think in probabilities, tastytrade offers advanced analytics, risk tools, and an AI-powered Search feature. Learn more at Voice AI is moving far beyond transcription. In this episode, Carter Huffman, CTO and co-founder of Modulate, explains how real-time voice intelligence is unlocking something much bigger than speech-to-text. His team built AI that understands emotion, intent,...
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#319 Subho Halder: Why Traditional App Security Fails in the Age of AI
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This episode is sponsored by tastytrade. Trade stocks, options, futures, and crypto in one platform with low commissions and zero commission on stocks and crypto. Built for traders who think in probabilities, tastytrade offers advanced analytics, risk tools, and an AI-powered Search feature. Learn more at AI is changing how software is built, but it is also quietly breaking how security works. In this episode of Eye on AI, host Craig Smith sits down with Subho Halder, co-founder and CEO of Appknox, to unpack a growing and largely invisible risk. AI-powered mobile apps...
info_outlineIn this episode of Eye on AI, we sit down with Evan Reiser, co-founder and CEO of Abnormal AI, to unpack how AI has fundamentally changed the cybersecurity landscape.
We explore why social engineering remains the most costly form of cybercrime, how generative AI has lowered the barrier for sophisticated attacks, and why humans have become the primary attack surface in modern security. Evan explains why traditional, signature-based defenses fall short, how behavioral AI detects threats that have never existed before, and what it means to build security systems that understand how people actually work and communicate.
The conversation also looks ahead at the AI arms race between attackers and defenders, the economics driving cybercrime, and what it truly means to be an AI-native company operating at scale.
This episode is a deep dive into the human side of AI security and why the future of cybersecurity depends less on code and more on behavior.
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(00:00) Abnormal AI’s origin
(02:31) Why phishing is still the biggest threat
(05:57) How attackers manipulate human trust
(10:05) The true cost of social engineering
(11:58) Vendor account compromise explained
(15:02) How AI changed cyber attacks
(16:28) Behavioral security vs traditional defenses
(19:55) Where Abnormal fits in the security stack
(22:24) Human psychology as the attack surface
(24:01) Why cyber defense is asymmetric
(28:48) Humans as the new zero-day
(31:01) Why attackers target people, not systems
(33:21) Behavioral modeling from ads to security
(36:10) Why money drives almost all attacks
(40:06) What happens after credentials are stolen
(42:18) Text scams and lateral movement
(43:55) What it means to be AI-native
(47:13) How Abnormal uses AI internally