{"podcast":{"title":"Future Ready Leadership With Jacob Morgan","slug":"future-ready-leadership-with-jacob-morgan-891576","podcast_index_feed_id":891576,"rss_url":"https://futureofworkpodcast.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://www.thefutureorganization.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/d/5/3/f/d53f491be4dc443dd959afa2a1bf1c87/5_copy.jpg","author":"Jacob Morgan","episode_count":1212,"summary":"The future of work isn't coming. It's already here — and it's moving fast. Future Ready is the podcast for leaders who want to stay ahead of AI, workplace transformation, and the forces reshaping how organizations operate and compete. Hosted by Jacob Morgan, futurist and bestselling author, this is where strategy meets reality. Every week, two formats in one feed: honest, unfiltered conversations with the CEOs, CHROs, and senior executives actually building the future of work — and sharp, no-fluff daily briefings that take the most important developments in artificial intelligence, AI agents, leadership, hybrid work, and organizational strategy and tell you exactly what they mean for your business. No hype. No filler. Just the insights, frameworks, and real-world playbooks that help you lead smarter, build resilient teams, and make better decisions in a world that won't slow down. If you're serious about leading what's next — this is your podcast. Subscribe to Future Ready wherever you listen.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/future-ready-leadership-with-jacob-morgan-891576"},"episode":{"title":"Costco's CEO Says AI Won't Touch Workers, Corporate America Is Drowning in AI Bills, & OpenAI Just Mapped Its Own Risks","slug":"costco-s-ceo-says-ai-won-t-touch-workers-corporate-america-is-drowning-in-ai-bills-openai-just-mapped-its-own-risks","published_at":"2026-05-29T18:25:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/future-ready-leadership-with-jacob-morgan-891576/costco-s-ceo-says-ai-won-t-touch-workers-corporate-america-is-drowning-in-ai-bills-openai-just-mapped-its-own-risks","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/future-ready-leadership-with-jacob-morgan-891576","url":"https://futureofworkpodcast.libsyn.com/costcos-ceo-says-ai-wont-touch-workers-corporate-america-is-drowning-in-ai-bills-openai-just-mapped-its-own-risks","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/futureofworkpodcast/future-ready-jacob-morgan-costco-ai-human-bet-tokenmaxxing-openai-governance-may-29-2026.mp3?dest-id=209072","summary":"May 29, 2026: Costco's CEO Ron Vachris said it plainly this week: \"I don't see AI making choices for Costco\" — and with $440 billion in market cap and 17% stock gains this year, the companies doubling down on human judgment are quietly outperforming the ones cutting workers for AI. On today's episode, Jacob Morgan breaks down three stories that together reveal the gap between what companies say about AI and what they're actually doing: why Costco, IBM, and Delta are winning by betting on humans; why corporate America is getting the bill for \"tokenmaxxing\" — the practice of deploying AI everywhere without measuring whether it works — and what disciplined AI investment actually looks like; and what OpenAI's newly published Frontier Governance Framework, which formally maps its own risk categories including \"loss of control,\" means for every business leader who needs an enterprise AI governance strategy before the regulations have teeth.","meta_description":"May 29, 2026: Costco's CEO Ron Vachris said it plainly this week: \"I don't see AI making choices for Costco\" — and with $440 billion in market cap and 17%…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1713,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/future-ready-leadership-with-jacob-morgan-891576/episodes/costco-s-ceo-says-ai-won-t-touch-workers-corporate-america-is-drowning-in-ai-bills-openai-just-mapped-its-own-risks/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/future-ready-leadership-with-jacob-morgan-891576/costco-s-ceo-says-ai-won-t-touch-workers-corporate-america-is-drowning-in-ai-bills-openai-just-mapped-its-own-risks.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}