Most companies blame failed AI initiatives on the technology—but former Microsoft executive Liat Ben-Zur says the real failure is usually leadership. Liat joins Ryan Alford to explain why businesses are burning through compute, measuring activity instead of results, and installing “Ferrari engines in lawnmowers” by forcing AI into broken workflows.

Drawing on three decades at Microsoft, Philips, and Qualcomm, she reveals why delegating transformation to a chief AI officer lets functional leaders avoid accountability. Ryan and Liat discuss how executives should choose valuable problems, redesign work around AI, build guardrails early, and stop experiments that cannot prove measurable business impact.

They also explore The Bias Advantage, her new leadership framework for using judgment, ethical clarity, unconventional perspective, and human accountability to compete when answers and expertise become cheap.

TOPICS COVERED

* Why most AI transformations fail
* The difference between AI activity and business impact
* How companies waste money by “burning through compute”
* Why AI cannot repair a broken workflow
* The danger of delegating transformation to one AI executive
* Metrics that reveal whether AI is creating real value
* Building privacy, security and accountability into AI deployment
* Why executives must be willing to stop failed experiments
* How AI is changing leadership and organizational power
* Why human judgment becomes more valuable as expertise gets cheaper
* How unconventional leaders identify missing data and hidden bias
* The leadership framework behind The Bias Advantage

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Liat Ben-Zur:
https://liatbenzur.com/

The Bias Advantage:
https://liatbenzur.com/thebiasadvantage/

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/lbenzur

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