AIAW Podcast

In Episode 190 of the AIAW Podcast, we’re joined by Daniel Lundin, Managing Director at inorigo, to explore Europe’s growing dependence on US AI and cloud providers and what it will take to regain control over its digital future. As AI becomes embedded in enterprise operations, we’ll discuss why technological sovereignty extends beyond infrastructure to ownership of data, knowledge, and business logic. Drawing on Daniel’s expertise in ontologies, knowledge graphs, and neuro-symbolic AI, we’ll explore how European organizations can reduce vendor lock-in, build trustworthy AI systems, and develop their own capabilities. We’ll also examine the balance between technological independence and global AI innovation, the role of leadership in AI transformation, and why the future of enterprise AI may depend less on who builds the most powerful models and more on who controls the knowledge behind them.
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In Episode 189 of the AIAW Podcast, we’re joined by Carl Heath, Senior Researcher and Research Lead at RISE, to explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping modern warfare and what the war in Ukraine can teach Europe about the conflicts of the future. We discuss AI-assisted battlefield intelligence, autonomous systems, information warfare, Russia’s use of influence operations and reflexive control, and how technologies developed for civilian purposes are being rapidly adapted for defence and resilience. Drawing on Carl’s experiences in Kyiv and his work across security, digital resilience, and psychological defence, we also examine how research organizations such as RISE can operate at the speed demanded by wartime innovation, what Europe can learn from Ukraine, and how military AI can advance without losing democratic control, strategic autonomy, and human accountability. Finally, we look beyond the current conflict to the growing role of AI in warfare and ask what AGI could mean for security, power, and the future of human conflict.
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In Episode 188 of the AIAW Podcast, we’re joined by Christian Landgren, Co-Founder and CPTO of Berget AI, to explore what it will take for Europe to build and control its own AI future. As AI becomes critical infrastructure for businesses, governments, healthcare, and society, control over models, compute, data, and infrastructure is becoming a strategic question. We discuss European AI sovereignty, sovereign AI cloud infrastructure, open-weight models, data ownership, vendor lock-in, and how European organizations can benefit from global AI innovation while keeping sensitive data under European control. Christian also takes us inside Berget AI and the launch of Berget Eval, before we explore Sweden’s potential advantage in sustainable AI infrastructure, multi-model architectures for more efficient agentic AI, the growing concentration of power around advanced AI, recursive self-improvement, and what AGI could ultimately mean for Europe and society.
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Season 13 of the AIAW Podcast kicks off with Mikko Alasaarela, Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of Agion, flying in from Helsinki for a conversation about what it really means to become an AI-native organization. As frontier AI accelerates and autonomous agents move into real operations, simply buying the latest models will not be enough. We’ll explore how private and public organizations can build their own AI capabilities, design and govern autonomous agent workflows, and compete without surrendering control to a handful of frontier model companies. Drawing on Mikko’s 15+ years in AI and his work building Agion, we’ll discuss no-code AI operations, agent swarms, governance-as-code, evaluation-powered steering, the future of SaaS, and European AI sovereignty. We’ll also look at what happens to organizations, work, and society as AI dramatically expands what individuals and teams can accomplish. If AGI is approaching faster than expected, the question is no longer just what AI will become. It is what we should be building today.
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Join us for the Season 12 finale of the AIAW Podcast as we welcome Beatrice Bushati, COO and Co-Founder, and Rebecca Oskarsson, Co-Founder and CTO of Pirr, for a fascinating conversation about one of AI’s most unexpected applications: love stories, emotions, and interactive storytelling. We explore how Pirr is building an AI-native platform where users co-create personalized romantic narratives, why some of the most engaging AI experiences may be driven by imagination rather than productivity, and what the rise of emotional AI means for creativity, entertainment, and human connection. From AI-generated chemistry and storytelling to the future of authorship, relationships, and emotional intelligence, this episode examines how artificial intelligence may reshape not only how we work, but also how we feel, create, and connect with one another. 
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