# How GenAI Is Changing Surveys, Research, and Product Validation with Sharif Amlani

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Published: 2026-05-03T14:06:00+00:00
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One of the biggest shifts I'm seeing right now is not only how AI is changing work, but how it is changing the way we test ideas. In the past, if a founder, researcher, product manager, or strategist wanted to validate an idea, the process was slow. Build a hypothesis. Run surveys. Wait for responses. Clean the data. Analyze it. Then maybe discover the question itself was not strong enough. Now, with GenAI, that whole cycle is being challenged. And this connects directly with my own work as well. When I work on AI strategy, GenAI maturity, or enterprise adoption roadmaps, the hardest part is often not the technology. The hardest part is asking the right question before building the solution. That is why today's conversation is important. Because we are moving from AI as a content generator to AI as a thinking partner. A system that can help researchers, founders, and teams test assumptions, explore user behavior, and sharpen decisions before spending time and money in the wrong direction. Today, I'm joined by Sharif Amlani , who brings together political science, research methods, data analysis, and generative AI to build tools for synthetic respondents and AI-powered research analysis. This is a conversation about research, validation, synthetic data, agents, and what happens when GenAI becomes part of the thinking process itself. Let's get into it. Episode # 187 Today's Guest : Sharif Amlani, Founder, HumanAI Sharif Amlani is the Founder and CEO of HumanAI, a UC Berkeley startup using generative AI to transform how we do research, analyze data, and expand what we know about the world around us. Website: HumanAI What Listeners Will Learn: How GenAI is changing research, surveys, and analysis What synthetic respondents are and where they can be useful Why AI-generated…

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