Future Ready Leadership With Jacob Morgan

September 9, 2026: I unpack the viral resignation of Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, who warned that AI labs are racing toward self-improving superintelligence and gambling with human lives. Then I look at OpenAI's claim that thousands of AI agents produced a proof for the Navier-Stokes problem, one of the Millennium Prize problems. Finally, I dig into the bigger question behind the headlines: how much of the AI extinction narrative is about real technical risk, and how much is about incentives, regulatory capture, effective altruism, IPO timing, and control over the future of AI?

I talk with Adam Kautzner, President of Evernorth Care Management and Express Scripts and EVP of Customer Personalization for The Cigna Group, about what it takes to lead a major multi-year transformation in healthcare. We get into how Evernorth and Express Scripts are redesigning pharmacy benefits around patients, why prescription pricing has become so complex, how AI could improve healthcare navigation and personalization, and why leaders cannot ignore the "critical middle" of transformation where the hard work actually happens.

September 4, 2026: I look at OpenAI's new GPT-6 Astra model and why even powerful AI agents still may not be ready to take over full jobs. Then I get into the August jobs report, which came in far stronger than expected and complicates the "AI is killing jobs" narrative. Finally, I unpack the Wall Street Journal's argument that AGI may already be here and why the real question is not whether AI can do tasks, but whether organizations can actually change fast enough to use it.

September 2, 2026: I share key lessons from my CHRO session with iFood CEO Diego Barreto, including why he is investing in AI even with negative ROI, how he built a digital twin, and how iFood is rethinking reviews, meetings, and change management. Then I get into the Wall Street Journal's report on employers using new interview rituals to fight AI-enabled candidate fraud. Finally, I unpack Uber cutting 10% of its workforce and why the real story may be work redesign, bureaucracy, and coordination, not AI replacing jobs.

I talk with Ofir Bloch, SVP of Corporate Marketing at WalkMe, about why enterprise AI adoption is harder than buying tools and handing out licenses. We get into WalkMe's State of Digital Adoption research, the gap between executive confidence and employee trust, AI sprawl, shadow AI, Gen Z's overconfidence with AI, and why real ROI comes from changing workflows instead of just tracking usage.