Asking Good Questions with Edward Roske
In this podcast, we explore the CFO's office's past, present, and future, examining how technology and AI are transforming finance. Join Edward Roske and referents as they discuss innovative ways to enhance the role, optimize processes, and shape the future of financial leadership.
Designed for CFOs and finance leaders, each episode provides actionable insights into leveraging technology to drive growth, improve efficiency, and address challenges.
With an engaging tone, the podcast simplifies complex concepts, covering topics like automating tasks, real-time data analysis, and strategic planning.
Key themes include the shift from traditional finance methods to innovative, technology-driven processes and real-world examples like scenario modeling and automated reporting.
The podcast also highlights future trends, such as generative AI for forecasting and advanced analytics for decision-making, promising to shape financial management. Edward Roske inspires listeners with practical advice and tools to embrace technology confidently.
Tune in for strategies to thrive in the evolving financial landscape.
Asking Good Questions with Edward Roske
Can AI Be Good for Business and Good for Humanity? | Richard Benjamins
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Richard has spent three decades in AI. He is an author, a leader in responsible AI, co-founder of an AI ethics observatory, and a builder of AI-for-good and cognitive-health initiatives. He led responsible AI at Telefónica, one of the world's largest telecommunications companies; co-founded OdiseIA, an observatory focused on AI's social and ethical impact; and helped create brAIngym, a project focused on cognitive health in the age of generative AI.
What's one way AI can be used for good? Tell me in the comments.
Asking Good Questions is hosted by Edward Roske. New episode every week this season.
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LINKS
Richard's new book, The AI-Driven Company (LID Publishing), is out July 16 in the UK and November 16 in the US. Buy it wherever you get your books, and support your local bookseller if you can. Publisher: https://lidpublishing.com
Caribbean AI Summit (Oct 9-10, San Juan): https://CaribbeanSummit.AI
Richard Benjamins on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-benjamins-490554/
OdiseIA, the AI ethics observatory he co-founded: https://odiseia.org
BOOKS & RESEARCH MENTIONED
The AI-Driven Company, Richard Benjamins (LID Publishing, 2026)
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter (1979)
Crossing the Chasm, Geoffrey Moore (1991)
"Your Brain on ChatGPT," MIT Media Lab, Kosmyna et al. (2025)
Flowminder Foundation, mobile-phone data for disaster and epidemic response: https://flowminder.org
OdiseIA4Good, the social-good arm of OdiseIA: https://odiseia4good.org
brAIngym, the OdiseIA project on keeping your mind sharp while AI does the reps for you
CHAPTERS
0:00 Cold open: which jobs does your brain still do on its own?
3:13 How long have you actually been doing AI? (three decades in)
4:30 Responsible AI: does it slow you down, or speed you up?
7:36 Ethical AI vs. AI for good: aiming it at what really helps people
10:47 Whose job is the good-but-unprofitable AI: companies, government, or non-profits?
13:07 Aiming AI at disasters: preparedness and the Flowminder story
19:00 Telefonica: turning phone data into social good (and a business)
22:05 From "Chief Electrical Officer" to Chief AI Officer: does the new title actually deliver?
26:57 Who should own AI: the office of the CFO, or IT?
33:45 How does a company cross the chasm to actually being AI-driven?
37:06 The brain gym: what worried you enough to start it?
38:34 Your brain on ChatGPT: what the MIT study found
42:37 Keeping your brain sharp: darts, table tennis, and the APETECE method
46:07 When's the book out, and where to find Richard
48:03 The takeaway: the one job to keep for yourself
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