web01.fireside.fm Thu, 28 May 2026 15:58:54 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) High Signal: Data Science | Career | AI - Episodes Tagged with “Nudge” https://highsignal.fireside.fm/tags/nudge Thu, 27 Nov 2025 20:00:00 -0500 Welcome to High Signal, the podcast for data science, AI, and machine learning professionals. High Signal brings you the best from the best in data science, machine learning, and AI. Hosted by Hugo Bowne-Anderson and produced by Delphina, each episode features deep conversations with leading experts, such as Michael Jordan (UC Berkeley), Andrew Gelman (Columbia) and Chiara Farranato (HBS). Join us for practical insights from the best to help you advance your career and make an impact in these rapidly evolving fields. More on our website: https://high-signal.delphina.ai/ en-us episodic Welcome to High Signal, where you’ll hear the best from the best in data science, machine learning, and AI. The goal of this podcast is to bring high signal, to help you advance your careers in data science, ML, and AI. Delphina Welcome to High Signal, the podcast for data science, AI, and machine learning professionals. High Signal brings you the best from the best in data science, machine learning, and AI. Hosted by Hugo Bowne-Anderson and produced by Delphina, each episode features deep conversations with leading experts, such as Michael Jordan (UC Berkeley), Andrew Gelman (Columbia) and Chiara Farranato (HBS). Join us for practical insights from the best to help you advance your career and make an impact in these rapidly evolving fields. More on our website: https://high-signal.delphina.ai/ no data, data science, machine learning, AI Delphina hugobowne@gmail.com Episode 29: Why AI Adoption Fails: A Behavioral Framework for AI Implementation https://highsignal.fireside.fm/29 a34c146e-1bb8-47e0-92eb-ffa801c2cb5b Thu, 27 Nov 2025 20:00:00 -0500 Delphina full Delphina Liz Costa of the Behavioral Insights Team returns to High Signal to deliver a critical behavioral science playbook for the AI era focused on human and business impact. We discuss why the potential of AI can only be fulfilled by understanding a single bottleneck: human behavior. The conversation reveals why leaders must intervene now to prevent temporary adoption patterns from calcifying into permanent organizational norms, the QWERTY Effect, and how to move organizations past simply automating drudgery to achieving deep integration. 49:25 no <p>Liz Costa of the Behavioral Insights Team returns to High Signal to deliver a critical behavioral science playbook for the AI era focused on human and business impact. We discuss why the potential of AI can only be fulfilled by understanding a single bottleneck: human behavior. The conversation reveals why leaders must intervene now to prevent temporary adoption patterns from calcifying into permanent organizational norms, the QWERTY Effect, and how to move organizations past simply automating drudgery to achieving deep integration.</p> <p>We dig into why AI adoption is fundamentally a behavioral challenge, providing a diagnostic framework for leaders to identify stalled progress using the Motivation-Capability-Trust triad. Liz explains how to reframe AI deployment by leveraging Loss Aversion to bypass employee skepticism, and how to design workflows that improve human reasoning rather than replace it. The conversation provides clear guidance on intentional task offloading, the power of using AI to stress-test decisions, and why sanctioning employee experimentation is essential to discovering high-value use cases.</p> <p><strong>LINKS</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.bi.team/publications/ai-and-human-behaviour/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">AI &amp; Human Behaviour: Augment, Adopt, Align, Adapt</a></li> <li><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/sofai/home" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Thinking Fast and Slow in AI</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.bi.team/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/How-can-LLMs-reduce-our-own-biases-Analysis-Report.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">How does LLM use affect decision-making?</a></li> <li><a href="https://high-signal.delphina.ai/episode/defaults-decisions-and-dynamic-systems-behavioral-science-meets-ai" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Defaults, Decisions, and Dynamic Systems: Behavioral Science Meets AI with Lis Costa (High Signal)</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.bi.team/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">The Behavioral Insights Team</a></li> <li><a href="https://uk.linkedin.com/in/elisabeth-costa-6a5b35248" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Lis Costa on LinkedIn</a></li> <li><a href="https://high-signal.delphina.ai/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">High Signal podcast</a></li> <li><a href="https://youtu.be/dXId0BbcsSE" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Watch the podcast episode on YouTube</a></li> <li><a href="https://delphinaai.substack.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Delphina's Newsletter</a> </li> </ul> data science, ML, AI, Nudge, GenAI Liz Costa of the Behavioral Insights Team returns to High Signal to deliver a critical behavioral science playbook for the AI era focused on human and business impact. We discuss why the potential of AI can only be fulfilled by understanding a single bottleneck: human behavior. The conversation reveals why leaders must intervene now to prevent temporary adoption patterns from calcifying into permanent organizational norms, the QWERTY Effect, and how to move organizations past simply automating drudgery to achieving deep integration.

We dig into why AI adoption is fundamentally a behavioral challenge, providing a diagnostic framework for leaders to identify stalled progress using the Motivation-Capability-Trust triad. Liz explains how to reframe AI deployment by leveraging Loss Aversion to bypass employee skepticism, and how to design workflows that improve human reasoning rather than replace it. The conversation provides clear guidance on intentional task offloading, the power of using AI to stress-test decisions, and why sanctioning employee experimentation is essential to discovering high-value use cases.

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We dig into why AI adoption is fundamentally a behavioral challenge, providing a diagnostic framework for leaders to identify stalled progress using the Motivation-Capability-Trust triad. Liz explains how to reframe AI deployment by leveraging Loss Aversion to bypass employee skepticism, and how to design workflows that improve human reasoning rather than replace it. The conversation provides clear guidance on intentional task offloading, the power of using AI to stress-test decisions, and why sanctioning employee experimentation is essential to discovering high-value use cases.

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]]> Episode 19: Defaults, Decisions, and Dynamic Systems: Behavioral Science Meets AI https://highsignal.fireside.fm/19 ca0afd9b-0a7a-4be7-929b-5f3cd1a1c0e5 Thu, 03 Jul 2025 09:45:00 -0400 Delphina full Delphina Lis Costa, Chief of Innovation and Partnerships at the Behavioural Insights Team, joins High Signal to explore how behavioral science is reshaping public policy, digital platforms, and machine learning. She explains how defaults influence behavior at scale, why personalization and chatbots are unlocking new kinds of interventions, and what happens when AI systems meet real-world complexity. We also discuss the limits of nudging, the promise of boosting, and why building for human decision-making requires more than just good models. 54:08 no <p>Lis Costa, Chief of Innovation and Partnerships at the Behavioural Insights Team, joins High Signal to explore how behavioral science is reshaping public policy, digital platforms, and machine learning.</p> <p>She explains how defaults influence behavior at scale, why personalization and chatbots are unlocking new kinds of interventions, and what happens when AI systems meet real-world complexity. We also discuss the limits of nudging, the promise of boosting, and why building for human decision-making requires more than just good models.</p> <p>We dig into why AI adoption is fundamentally a behavioral challenge, providing a diagnostic framework for leaders to identify stalled progress using the Motivation-Capability-Trust triad. Lis explains how to reframe AI deployment by leveraging Loss Aversion to bypass employee skepticism, and how to design workflows that improve human reasoning rather than replace it. The conversation provides clear guidance on intentional task offloading, the power of using AI to stress-test decisions, and why sanctioning employee experimentation is essential to discovering high-value use cases.</p> <p><strong>LINKS</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.bi.team/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">The Behavioral Insights Team</a></li> <li><a href="https://uk.linkedin.com/in/elisabeth-costa-6a5b35248" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Lis Costa on LinkedIn</a></li> <li><a href="https://high-signal.delphina.ai/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">High Signal podcast</a></li> <li><a href="https://delphinaai.substack.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Delphina's Newsletter</a></li> </ul> data science, ML, AI, Nudge, GenAI Lis Costa, Chief of Innovation and Partnerships at the Behavioural Insights Team, joins High Signal to explore how behavioral science is reshaping public policy, digital platforms, and machine learning.

She explains how defaults influence behavior at scale, why personalization and chatbots are unlocking new kinds of interventions, and what happens when AI systems meet real-world complexity. We also discuss the limits of nudging, the promise of boosting, and why building for human decision-making requires more than just good models.

We dig into why AI adoption is fundamentally a behavioral challenge, providing a diagnostic framework for leaders to identify stalled progress using the Motivation-Capability-Trust triad. Lis explains how to reframe AI deployment by leveraging Loss Aversion to bypass employee skepticism, and how to design workflows that improve human reasoning rather than replace it. The conversation provides clear guidance on intentional task offloading, the power of using AI to stress-test decisions, and why sanctioning employee experimentation is essential to discovering high-value use cases.

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]]> Lis Costa, Chief of Innovation and Partnerships at the Behavioural Insights Team, joins High Signal to explore how behavioral science is reshaping public policy, digital platforms, and machine learning.

She explains how defaults influence behavior at scale, why personalization and chatbots are unlocking new kinds of interventions, and what happens when AI systems meet real-world complexity. We also discuss the limits of nudging, the promise of boosting, and why building for human decision-making requires more than just good models.

We dig into why AI adoption is fundamentally a behavioral challenge, providing a diagnostic framework for leaders to identify stalled progress using the Motivation-Capability-Trust triad. Lis explains how to reframe AI deployment by leveraging Loss Aversion to bypass employee skepticism, and how to design workflows that improve human reasoning rather than replace it. The conversation provides clear guidance on intentional task offloading, the power of using AI to stress-test decisions, and why sanctioning employee experimentation is essential to discovering high-value use cases.

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