The podcast
Hardwired: The
Human Algorithm.
A podcast about AI, power, and the humans at the other end of the decision.
Hardwired exists because every boardroom conversation, every family advisory call, and every lecture theatre Lena steps into ends in the same place: the person whose life is being shaped by a decision someone else made about AI. The podcast is where Lena examines those decisions directly, in public, with the people best placed to think about them with her.
Each episode takes one of the questions AI is asking of us, about work, parenting, identity, power, or inheritance and examines what is actually happening underneath, who benefits, and what we lose if we do not see it clearly. Guests are founders, practitioners, researchers, parents, and people who have lived the consequences of AI decisions up close.
“Every room I walk into leads back to the same person: the one whose life gets shaped by a decision someone else made about AI.
If the governance work on the commercial side of this site is about how organisations should make these decisions, Hardwired is about what those decisions actually mean for the people on the receiving end.
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Every conversation, in one place
New episodes monthly. Each one takes a single question AI is asking of us and follows it back to the person on the receiving end.
16 Mar 2026
1h 05m
Is AI Eroding Childhood Connection?
Spotify
Apple Podcasts
with Nicole Runyon
03 Mar 2026
54 min
Deepfakes, AI Companions & Online Safety — Former DCI Explains
Former Met Police Detective Chief Inspector Lucy Howard on AI companions, deepfakes and the psychology behind digital engagement.
with Lucy Howard
Board-level AI governance advisory for UK
SMEs. Led by Lena Chauhan.
London
