The Nick Standlea Show

The AI companies say it out loud: their goal is superintelligence — systems more capable than humans at everything — and by their own admission it carries a greater-than-10% chance of ending humanity. Max Winga says the part they leave out is that none of this is inevitable. He's a physicist who left AI safety research to help build Control AI, which has now briefed more than 300 lawmakers across the US, UK, Canada and ...

"What are you avoiding talking about, and why?" After 33 years studying sex and intimacy, sociologist Dr. Jenn Gunsaullus says every stuck relationship she's seen comes back to that one question.

In this conversation she explains why Gen Z is the first generation on record to have less sex than the one before it — and why AI companions could make it worse. Her fear, in her own words: that too many young people "could end up t...

Dr. Bertalan Meskó — The Medical Futurist — argues that AI in medicine was never a choice. It's arithmetic.

The world is short roughly 6 million healthcare workers today, and the WHO projects 11 million by 2030. About a billion people have zero access to care. We will never train our way out of that gap. "It's not a choice. It's a must," Berci says — because without AI, "we will not be able to keep on providing he...

Igor Pogany — creator of The AI Advantage (one of YouTube's most-followed AI channels) — joins The Nick Standlea Show to map out how to actually win with AI right now, without the hype.

Igor's framework is a pyramid with three levels: Level 1 is AI for answers (a fancy Google). Level 2 is AI as a thought partner — one with enough context on you that it sharpens every decision you make. Level 3 is the architect: bu...

AI tools are powerful. But do they actually know your company?

Rick Nucci, CEO of Guru and founder of Boomi, joins The Nick Standlea Show to explain why AI inside companies is much harder than personal productivity with ChatGPT. The models may be capable, but they don’t automatically understand your team, your products, your customers, your pricing, your processes, or the way your company actually works.

And that’s wher...

What happens when AI becomes so good that we can no longer tell what is real?

In this episode of The NickStandlea Show, Nick sits down with Steve Rosenbaum to talk about AI, misinformation, fake video, social media, education, creativity, and the future of truth.

Steve argues that AI is not simply another new technology. It is a force that may change how we understand reality itself. From deepfake videos and hallucinated facts to a...

Detective Julia Bowman was one of the investigators who helped expose John Meehan — the man the world would come to know as Dirty John.

In this episode of The Nick Standlea Show, Julia walks through the real case behind the headlines: how John Meehan manipulated, stalked, threatened, and terrorized the people around him, and how law enforcement began putting the pieces together before the story became a national true-crime ph...

What happens if the companies racing to build superintelligence succeed before anyone knows how to control it?

In this episode, Nick sits down with Malo Bourgon, CEO of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, to discuss why today’s chatbots are only a stepping stone, why leading AI companies are racing toward systems that could automate AI research itself, and why “letting it rip” may not be an option.

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Most people think they understand how they work.

They don’t.

In this episode, Wade Foster, co-founder and CEO of Zapier, explains what actually happens when you connect AI to your tools, your data, and your workflow.

It doesn’t just help. It sees things you don’t.

From analyzing your work to automating entire systems, AI is becoming something closer to a second brain—one that can understand your business bet...

Google is no longer the only place people look. So how do we show up in AI searches?

In this episode, Nick sits down with marketing strategist Ross Simmonds to break down what businesses, creators, and entrepreneurs need to understand as discovery shifts from traditional search to ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Reddit, YouTube, and beyond.

They get into query fan-out, why LLMs pull from multiple platforms at once, why YouTube may be ...

If you think AI in medicine is still some far-off future, it’s not. Dr. Peter Weir is a family physician and health system leader, and in this conversation, he explains how AI is already changing what happens in the exam room. We get into ambient AI for medical documentation, how these tools may reduce physician burnout, where AI is already helping with clinical decision-making, and why the future of medicine will still requi...

If you’ve ever been told “just post every day and you’ll eventually blow up”… T.D. Orel is living proof that advice can be wildly wrong.

T.D. spent 14 months posting daily with basically nothing to show for it—then he made one shift, leaned hard into niche, specific, “if you know, you know” content, and his accounts exploded.

In this episode, we break down:

Why posting every day didn...

Most “business advice” on AI is noise. But if you’re building an AI-powered service, consulting business, or agency, the real bottleneck isn’t the tech...

It’s positioning, pricing, and selling outcomes.

Alan Weiss—author of *7-Figure Consulting* and the guy who’s been teaching value-based fees for decades—joins me to lay down the fundamentals that actually compound in an AI economy: ...

AI is changing school, college admissions, and the workforce faster than most parents and students realize. In this episode, I sit down with Ryan Kiick (CEO of Revolution Prep) to talk about the skills that won’t get automated, and how to use AI without becoming dependent on it.

We get into the real danger of offloading thinking, why the most powerful way to use AI is to generate better questions (not just better answers), wh...

In this conversation with philosopher Dr. Philip Goff, we dive into one of the deepest questions in science and philosophy: what if consciousness isn’t produced by the brain—what if it’s fundamental to reality?

We explore panpsychism, the “hard-to-ignore” problem of subjective experience, why physics may describe what matter does but not what it is, and what it would mean if even the smallest building ...

Fear of other people’s opinions quietly shapes how we perform, how we speak, and who we allow ourselves to become.

In this conversation, Michael Gervais—performance psychologist to Super Bowl champions, Olympic gold medalists, and Fortune 50 leaders—breaks down why the fear of judgment is one of the greatest limiters of human potential.

We explore why winning and losing can become distractions, how identity gets t...

Most people use AI like a faster assistant. Leaders use it differently.

In this conversation, Geoff Woods (author of The AI-Driven Leader) explains the shift that turns AI from a shallow productivity tool into a true thought partner—one that helps you think better, make better decisions, and unlock leverage you didn’t have before.

We go deep into: *Why “better prompts” aren’t the real breakthrough *How...

If anyone builds it, everyone dies. That’s the claim Nate Soares makes in his new book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All—and in this conversation, he lays out why he thinks we’re on a collision course with a successor species.

We dig into why today’s AIs are grown, not programmed, why no one really knows what’s going on inside large models, and how systems that &ld...

Professor Christopher Summerfield, a leading neuroscientist at Oxford University and Research Director at the UK AI Safety Institute, former Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, discusses his new book, These Strange New Minds, which explores how large language models learned to talk, how they differ from the human brain, and what their rise means for control, agency, and the future of work.

We discuss: The real risk of AI ...