SE 25: What AI Can't Replace, with the CEOs of Scribe, Operative Games, and Dataiku, and the CBO of Zensai | Live from HumanX 2026 Special Episode

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In this special compilation episode of AI and the Future of Work, we are bringing you four conversations recorded live on the show floor at HumanX 2026. This is the second episode of our three-part HumanX Live series.

In an era dominated by headlines about displacement and disruption, these four founders share a grounded optimism about what AI cannot replace: human judgment, creativity, and the drive to do work that matters.

Each of these leaders is building in a different space, but they arrived at the same conviction. The companies and people poised to win in the AI era are not the ones moving fastest to automate. They are the ones who understand what humans are uniquely built to do, and build systems that make space for it.

What You'll Learn

• Why most organizations cannot answer a basic question: how does work actually get done here, and why that gap is now a strategic liability • How AI-powered learning can shift employee development from a compliance obligation to a genuine driver of engagement • Why storytelling will remain a human craft, and what the Pixar transition teaches us about navigating creative disruption • The case for asynchronous AI collaboration, where systems work overnight and humans return to exercise judgment • Why optimism about the human worker is not naive, and what the data actually shows • How to balance AI use cases that replace humans with those that create new value and grow the economy

Featured Guests

Jennifer Smith • , CEO & Co-founder of Scribe. Listen to the full conversation here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/520474/episodes/19257070 • Robin Daniels • , Chief Business Officer at Zensai. Listen to the full conversation here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/520474/episodes/19257107 Jon Snoddy • , CEO of Operative Games. Listen to the full conversation here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/520474/episodes/19257113 • Florian Douetteau • , CEO of Dataiku. Listen to the full conversation here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/520474/episodes/19257131 •

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Explore the Full HumanX 2026 Series

This episode is part of a special three-part series recorded live at HumanX 2026:

Episode 1: • Special conversation with Stefan Weitz, CEO of HumanX: https://www.buzzsprout.com/520474/episodes/19210355Episode 3: • Compilation featuring leaders from Honeycomb, FieldAI, Archetype AI, and Zoom: https://www.buzzsprout.com/520474/episodes/19363520

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