In a world where everyone has access to the same tools, Iain Thomas believes it’s never been more important to lean into the skills, context, and experiences that make each of us most unique—and most human.

This distillery is using AI to help make and market their whiskey. But what sells—and how to sell it—is still a matter of human taste.

Amanda Cupido doesn’t speak Spanish or French. But using AI, she and her team helped a global nonprofit make their internal podcast more accessible to as many employees as possible.

Katie Skinner develops robots. Stephanie Gandulla studies shipwrecks. With AI, they can spend less time searching and more time exploring—as only humans can do.

Chef Ian Ramirez uses AI to tackle the repetitive, time-consuming parts of menu planning for commercial kitchens, and help clients visualize new concepts before anything gets sliced or diced.

Working Smarter is back for season two! Starting September 3, we’re going beyond the hype and headlines to bring you stories about real people using AI to do more of what they love about their jobs. From the F1 track to the kitchen—and even the bottom of a lake—learn how new tools are helping creatives, makers, visionaries, and their teams think big, move faster, and focus on the work that matters most.

On our final episode this season of Working Smarter, Stanford ophthalmology professor Sophia Wang talks about making better decisions with the data you already have, and how machine learning can help find patterns that might be difficult for humans to spot.

On our seventh episode of Working Smarter, hear Dropbox co-founder and CEO Drew Houston discuss why it’s gotten so hard to find the information you need to do your job, the types of tasks we'll increasingly offload to our silicon brains, and what Dropbox is doing to help make modern work more meaningful and fulfilling.

On our sixth episode of Working Smarter, hear Bardeen co-founder and CEO Pascal Weinberger talk about effortlessly automating repetitive tasks in the apps you already use for work, and why he doesn't want to build tools that replace us.

On our fifth episode of Working Smarter, hear sports scientist Natalie Kupperman discuss AI-powered tools for monitoring athlete health and fitness, the importance of getting all of your data into one place, and why there will always be some injuries we can’t prevent.

On our fourth episode of Working Smarter, hear Cognizant's AI CTO Babak Hodjat talk about why it’s still so hard for digital assistants to understand us, and how AI can help us make better decisions and improve the way we do our jobs.

On our third episode of Working Smarter, hear Writer CEO and co-founder May Habib talk about how AI-powered tools can help streamline the writing part of your workflows, so you can get to the “thinking part” of your job more quickly.

For our second episode of Working Smarter, hear University of Toronto law professor Abdi Aidid talk about using AI to spend more time on the things you do best, and why he thinks AI could actually make legal services more accessible and supportive.

In our first episode of Working Smarter, robotics expert and MIT research scientist Kate Darling talks about why our relationship with animals might be a better way to frame the interactions we’re having with increasingly intelligent machines.

In this new podcast from Dropbox, learn how people are using AI at work to collaborate, find focus, and get stuff done—not at some point in the future, but today. Hear founders, researchers, and engineers talk about the problems they’re solving with the help of new and emerging AI tools, and how AI can help you spend more time on the work that matters most.

On our final episode of Remotely Curious, we’ll have a fun conversation with Teresa and Travis McElroy, humorists and hosts of the podcast Shmanners, about how to treat others with respect, come across the way you want to, and avoid embarrassing gaffes.

How can we stay focused in a world full of distractions? In this episode of Remotely Curious, we talk to professor and author Dr. Gloria Mark about the science of attention, the pitfalls of multitasking, and how to stay focused in a distracting digital world.

In this episode of Remotely Curious, we talk to psychology professor and researcher Essi Viding about how to support well-being in a remote work environment. She shares wise and evidence-based ways to care for ourselves, support others, and build resilience.

On today’s episode of Remotely Curious, we talk to professor and behavioral scientist Katy Milkman about why fresh starts are so exciting, ways to use transitional moments as opportunities to experiment, and how to embrace and enjoy change—even when we don’t ask for it. No matter our age or experience, we all feel like the new kid sometimes.

We talk to musician, composer, podcaster, and creative powerhouse Hrishikesh Hirway on how to trust our instincts, the fine line between garbage and good ideas, the magic of creative partnership, and the ways remote work can actually help us stay inspired.