🎙️Grisha Pavlotsky, Chief Transformation Officer at MiroOpening paragraphThis episode shares a conversation between Grisha Pavlotsky, CTO of Miro, and Eva Simone Lihotzky. It examines trust as a practical design problem in teams, AI systems, and everyday decision-making. The conversation is for leaders, builders, and parents trying to make sense of how judgment, accountability, and authority shift when AI becomes part of how work and learning happen. It focuses on what needs to be made explicit - intent, guardrails, and decision logic - rather than assumed.Episode overviewGrisha draws on his work leading transformation at Miro and his experience raising four children to explore how trust holds - or breaks - when information is abundant and increasingly synthesized. The discussion moves between organizations and families, treating them as parallel systems facing the same challenge: people are no longer short on answers, but on the ability to judge, contextualize, and disagree productively. Along the way, the episode questions current education models, critiques optional AI adoption, and argues that trust depends less on confidence and more on transparency about how decisions are made and who remains accountable.Key themes discussedTrust as alignment on intent plus visibility into decision frameworks, not just emotional safetyHow AI amplifies confidence without guaranteeing expertise, complicating collaborationWhy probabilistic systems require clear guardrails, not vague goalsThe shift from producing synthesis to judging and challenging synthesized viewpointsEducation moving from teaching facts to navigating competing narrativesIdentity and ego as the real blockers in large-scale transformationLeadership responsibility in making AI adoption mandatory rather than optionalParenting and organizational leadership as the same sense-making problem at different scalesA recurring reference is the idea - attributed to Satya Nadella - that trust is built through consistency over time, and what that consistency demands in an AI-mediated world.

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