The Runbook
S02E01 · Jan 16, 2026 · 38 min · Hosted by Simran Chotrani

The Missing Layer in Enterprise AI: Causal Thinking

From boardrooms to conference keynotes, leaders are told that AGI is just around the corner, GenAI will transform everything overnight, and copilots will fix decades of organizational inertia. Yet whe

The Missing Layer in Enterprise AI: Causal Thinking
38 min

From boardrooms to conference keynotes, leaders are told that AGI is just around the corner, GenAI will transform everything overnight, and copilots will fix decades of organizational inertia. Yet when decisions truly matter pricing, churn, network investment, and growth confidence remains low.

That tension sets the stage for Season 02, Episode 01 of our podcast. Our guest, John K. Thompson, brings four decades of hands-on experience across analytics, enterprise data, and AI. In a landscape dominated by hype, John offers a grounded perspective explaining why we are still far from AGI, why correlation-based insights often mislead executives, and how Causal AI can help leaders make more explainable, high confidence decisions.

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