Influential Visions

Nat Schooler - Business Futurist
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500+ conversations with global executives. Unfiltered. No hype. Hosted by ex-IBM Futurist Nat Schooler, Influential Visions is the show for leaders and professionals who need to understand what is actually happening in business, AI, and the future of work — and what to do about it. Every episode is a direct conversation with the people overseeing tens of billions in commerce. Leadership, strategy, AI, geopolitical shifts, digital transformation — decoded for people who need to act on what is coming. Full, uncut, ad-free episodes and the 500+ archive are available via MONDAY INFLUENCER®: www.mondayinfluencer.com 

  1. 1d ago

    Trump Banned Claude Fable 5. Steven Manning Says That Is Good for America

    The US government just shut down access to Anthropic's two most powerful AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, days after launch. Steven J. Manning joins Nathaniel Schooler to close the AI in Government series and ask the only question that matters: national security, or the costliest competitive takedown in tech history. Different place. Same question. Visit the shownotes here: https://www.natschooler.com/the-trump-administration-just-banned-a-commercial-ai-model-for-the-first-time-steven-manning-says-that-was-the-right-call/ Subscribe to MONDAY INFLUENCER®: https://mondayinfluencer.com

    43 min

  2. 6d ago

    Sovereign AI Who Controls the Machine Controls the Future

    Sovereign AI: The Geopolitical Weapon Being Built Right NowInfluential Visions with Nat SchoolerThe foundation model era is over. The sovereign AI era has begun. Every serious nation on the planet is now racing to build its own AI stack — controlling the energy, the compute, the data, and the rules. Because relying on foreign AI infrastructure is no longer a tech decision. It is a national security decision. In this episode, ex-IBM Futurist Nat Schooler breaks down what is actually happening behind the headlines — and why most of what you are being told is wrong. What we cover:The USA outspent China 23 to 1 last year. The gap between their best models is under 3%. Spending is not winning this race. Data centres now consume more electricity than the entire United Kingdom. China is launching satellite data centres into space. Europe is heating homes with server waste heat. This is a physical infrastructure war. India is building frugal AI — multilingual, sovereign, built for a billion people. Not brute force. Precision. 80% of AI running inside businesses is completely invisible to the board. Klarna gutted its customer service with AI. It quietly rehired humans when quality collapsed. Companion chatbots engineered to maximise engagement have talked vulnerable people into taking their own lives. Zero corporate accountability. Zero regulatory framework. And through all of it — one thing remains that no model can replicate. Trust. Accountability. Relationships. The human moat. Next episode: The American AI story — with a guest who has been working with AI and data since the 1980s. Before the hype. Before the billions. Before ChatGPT existed. Know someone from the USA or Estonia we should speak to? Email us: info@influentialvisions.com🔗 Access the full archive — $1 trial: https://mondayinfluencer.com 📩 Topic requests: info@influentialvisions.comsovereign AI, digital sovereignty, AI geopolitics, future of work, AI jobs, human moat, AI infrastructure, Nat Schooler, Influential Visions, Monday Influencer

    5 min

  3. Jun 9

    China Moved Its Data Centres Into Space. Here Is What Every Leader Needs to Know

    Global data centers now consume more electricity than the entire United Kingdom. While most boardrooms treat AI as a software decision, the world's superpowers are realizing the truth: AI is an energy decision.In this episode, we explore how the grid crisis is forcing a radical split in tech infrastructure. While Europe is engineering practical ways to capture data center waste heat to warm thousands of homes, China is moving its computing off the planet entirely. We dive into China’s extraordinary new "Three-Body Computing Constellation"—a multi-billion-dollar network of orbital supercomputers powered by constant solar energy and cooled by the vacuum of space. 🎧 What We Discuss: The AI Energy Wall: Why global compute is on track to consume as much power as Japan by 2026. Europe’s Grounded Logic: From heating Paris Olympic pools to supplying district heat to 250,000 people in Finland. China's Orbital Leap: Inside the $8.4 billion space-based supercomputing network that caught Elon Musk's attention. The Leadership Equation: Why the next decade of competitive advantage belongs to those who control the power, not just the model. 🔗 Connect & Learn More: Full Show Notes & Links: [INSERT SHOWNOTES LINK HERE] Free Tools for Leaders: https://natschooler.com/tools Get the Written Intelligence (Newsletter): https://natschooler.com Read Deeper on Substack: https://futureproofleader.substack.com Join Monday Influencer®: Get the weekly expert signal that separates the noise from reality: https://mondayinfluencer.com

    7 min

  4. Jun 4

    Managed Decline In The UK: Why AI as Human Replacement with Darrell Mann

    The UK is spending half a billion pounds on sovereign AI and sitting sixth in the world for real deployment. Something structural is broken — and Darrell Mann knows exactly what it is. Darrell is a former Chief Engineer of Rolls Royce and one of the world's leading systematic innovation experts. We strip away the political PR and get into why 98% of R&D spending fails, why engineers need to be running state infrastructure instead of lawyers, and why corporations using AI purely to replace humans are walking into what Darrell calls managed decline — a slow institutional death disguised as efficiency. If you lead anything — a team, a business, a department — this one is for you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FOLLOW THE SHOW — so the next one lands automatically. MONDAY INFLUENCER® — curated expert signal for leaders. No noise. $19.95/mo → https://mondayinfluencer.comFUTURE PROOF LEADER — the weekly briefing, straight to your inbox. → https://substack.com/@futureproofleaderEverything else (channels + socials) → https://natschooler.com/tools ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

    40 min

  5. Jun 2

    WHEN GOVERNMENTS DECIDE, CAREERS PAY THE PRICE AI, Power, and the Future of Work

    Governments are making decisions about artificial intelligence right now. You were not consulted. But the consequences are heading for your career regardless. This series brings together four of the most credible voices on the planet — Tushar Kansal on India's national AI ambition, Nicolas Babin on what the EU AI Act actually does to working people, Darrell Mann on where human leadership becomes irreplaceable, and Steven J. Manning on what America's dominance of AI investment means for everyone else. Four countries. Four perspectives. One question: what happens to real careers when the most powerful institutions on earth start running on machines? New episodes every week on Influential Visions. 🔔 Subscribe so you never miss an episode 📩 Get the written intelligence behind every conversation — Future Proofed Leader newsletter at natschooler.com 💡 Join MONDAY INFLUENCER® at https://mondayinfluencer.com — the expert network for leaders who want signal, not noise. Get the shownotes and the research here: https://www.natschooler.com/which-jobs-will-ai-replace/ #AI #FutureOfWork #ArtificialIntelligence #Leadership #InfluentialVisions

    9 min

  6. May 30

    Chatbots Are Killing People and Nobody's Stopping Them

    AI job losses in 2026 have passed 142,000 in tech alone. Chatbots have been directly linked to multiple deaths. The FDA has issued its first ever warning letter citing AI misuse. The data is in — and it is worse than you think. Re-released due to the audio not meeting our standards. Nat Schooler breaks down the verified facts on what AI is actually doing to people and to the workforce right now. No hype, no speculation. Real cases, real data, real accountability gaps. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FOLLOW THE SHOW — so the next one lands automatically. Get the shownotes here: https://www.natschooler.com/ai-job-losses-2026-chatbot-deaths-and-the-harm-nobody-is-talking-about/ MONDAY INFLUENCER® — curated expert signal for leaders. No noise. $19.95/mo → https://mondayinfluencer.com FUTURE PROOF LEADER — the weekly briefing, straight to your inbox. → https://substack.com/@futureproofleaderEverything else (channels + socials) → https://natschooler.com/tools

    11 min

  7. May 28

    Why India Is Winning The AI Race Nobody Is Watching | Tushar Kansal

    The world's biggest AI conversation is happening without India in the room. That is a mistake. One in eight of ChatGPT's weekly users sits in India. Eighty per cent of Indian professionals use AI at work — against fifty per cent in the US. And the country is quietly building its own sovereign language models, frugal AI tools, and healthcare diagnostics at a scale the West has not begun to absorb. Tushar Kansal — founder of Kansaltancy Ventures, VC strategist to 1,700-plus international investors — joins Nat Schooler to cover what India is actually building, what happened at the Delhi AI Summit that nobody is talking about, and why ancient Indian philosophy understands something about intelligent machines that Silicon Valley has missed completely. "AI can give you the right answer. But it cannot give you the right intention." Read the full piece: https://www.natschooler.com/why-india-is-winning-the-ai-race-nobody-is-watching/More from Nat: https://www.natschooler.com Monday Influencer®: https://mondayinfluencer.com Tools: https://www.natschooler.com/tools

    30 min

  8. May 26

    Sovereign AI: The US vs China Money War (And Why Spending More Is Not Winning)

    Sovereign AI is the race for every nation to control its own artificial intelligence — and the US versus China money war just exposed why spending more is not winning. Fresh data from the 2026 Stanford AI Index reveals a staggering reality: the United States poured $285.9 billion of private AI money into the race in 2025, compared to China’s $12.4 billion. That is a massive 23-to-1 spending gap. Yet, despite the US being the biggest spender in history, the performance gap between the top American and Chinese models has collapsed to a mere 2.7%. In this teaser episode, we break down why money isn't buying absolute safety or control, how the illusion of "borrowed control" creates real-world human risks, and why this completely reframes the global tech race. If the world's biggest budget can barely maintain a lead, what does it mean for nations competing on a fraction of the cost? 🔗 Resources Mentioned Read the full deep-dive article: The Sovereign AI Paradox: Why No Nation Builds Its Future Alone Subscribe to: Future Proofed Leader on Substack https://futureproofleader.substack.com/  Monday Influencer for your weekly dose of signal over noise here: https://mondayinfluencer.com What You’ll Learn In This Teaser: The 23-to-1 Paradox: Why Washington's multi-billion-dollar spending advantage isn't yielding a dominant lead. The Performance Collapse: How a 2.7% performance gap changes the geopolitical playing field overnight. Human-Centric Dangers: A look at the three very real, non-technical risks of relying on foreign technology: price volatility, signal manipulation, and infrastructure vulnerabilities. The Road to Thursday: How this sets the stage for our upcoming, exclusive conversation with Indian venture capitalist Tushar Kansal, exploring how India is competing on a fraction of the budget. Connect With UsDon't miss the full conversation dropping this Thursday. Hit that Subscribe or Follow button to stay ahead of the curve.

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500+ conversations with global executives. Unfiltered. No hype. Hosted by ex-IBM Futurist Nat Schooler, Influential Visions is the show for leaders and professionals who need to understand what is actually happening in business, AI, and the future of work — and what to do about it. Every episode is a direct conversation with the people overseeing tens of billions in commerce. Leadership, strategy, AI, geopolitical shifts, digital transformation — decoded for people who need to act on what is coming. Full, uncut, ad-free episodes and the 500+ archive are available via MONDAY INFLUENCER®: www.mondayinfluencer.com 

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  • Creator
    Nat Schooler - Business Futurist
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2026
  • Episodes
    183
  • Rating
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    © Nat Schooler
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