Prompted: AI, People and the Creative Spark
Prompted: AI, People and the Creative Spark explores the evolving relationship between human creativity and artificial intelligence. Hosted by Canva's Co-founder and Chief Product Officer, Cameron Adams, the show features conversations with leading thinkers and builders who are reimagining creativity in an era where AI acts as a collaborator. Each episode offers insights into how AI is transforming leadership, invention, and the creative process. The podcast is for anyone curious about the future of creativity and the people shaping it.
Episodes
Training vs. Inference: What Most People Get Wrong About How AI Actually Works with Lin Qiao, CEO of Fireworks AI
What if 90% of the world's data is sitting untouched? That's exactly where the real AI frontier lies.In this episode, Cameron Adams sits down with Lin Qiao, co-founder and CEO of Fireworks AI, to explore why the future of intelligence won't come from a handful of foundation models, but from millions of customized ones built on private data. Lin co-created PyTorch at Meta, before founding Fireworks
Cannes Lions 2026 Special: OpenAI, Zoom, Under Armour, Accenture Song on How Soft Skills Are the Hard Skills Now
What if the four people setting AI strategy at some of the world's biggest brands all showed up in the same tent at Cannes — and none of them agreed on what "restraint" actually means?This special live episode of Prompted was recorded at the Canva Creative Cabana at Cannes Lions 2026, where Cameron Adams sat down with four marketing leaders navigating AI's collision with advertising: Kimberly Stor
I Let AI Agents Run My Company - Then They Started Hallucinating: Evan Ratliff on Rise-and-Grind Bots, Fabricated Progress Reports, and the Billion-Dollar Solo-Founder Myth
What if the one-person, billion-dollar AI startup everyone's predicting turns out to be run by a CEO who can't stop hallucinating user tests?In this episode, Cameron Adams sits down with Evan Ratliff, journalist, best-selling author, and host of the podcast Shell Game, to unpack what happened when he actually built that company. After cloning himself for season one and unleashing the clone on scam
Constraints Breed Creativity: Tey Bannerman on Coding, Discipline, and the Skills AI Can't Replace
What if the biggest barrier to AI adoption isn't the technology at all, but trust?
In this episode, Cameron Adams sits down with Tey Bannerman, AI strategist, advisor, and former McKinsey partner, to explore why the companies winning with AI aren't the ones with the best models, but the ones who understand the humans on the other side of the screen. Tey traces his path from teaching himself to cod
The Enterprise Context Wars: Tokens, Trust, and the Race for Relevance with Arvind Jain, Founder & CEO of Glean
What happens when finding a design document at Google is harder than finding anything on the entire internet?
In this episode, Cameron Adams sits down with Arvind Jain, Founder and CEO of Glean, to unpack why enterprise knowledge was broken for decades and what it took to finally fix it. Arvind spent over a decade as a distinguished engineer at Google working on Search, Maps, and YouTube, then co-
The Soul in the Machine: AI, Branding, and Original Thought with Debbie Millman, Host of Design Matters
What happens when the person who couldn't draw the letter H as a kid becomes one of the most influential designers of her generation?
In this episode, Cameron Adams sits down with Debbie Millman, designer, author, educator, and host of the pioneering podcast Design Matters, to explore what decades on the front lines of design can teach us about navigating the AI moment. Debbie has interviewed more
Building the Next Generation: AI's Impact on Creativity and Leadership with Michele Catasta, President & Head of AI at Replit
What happens when a self-described "one-trick pony" helps build the tools that make everyone a builder?
In this episode, Cameron Adams sits down with Michele Catasta, President and Head of AI at Replit, to explore how vibe coding is quietly rewriting the rules of software creation — and what it means for the future of work, creativity, and the companies we build.
Michele traces his path from open-
Navigating AI's Promise in Media and Advertising with Alex Kantrowitz, Founder of Big Technology
What happens when the person asking the tough questions about AI has to answer them himself?
In this episode, veteran tech journalist and Big Technology founder Alex Kantrowitz joins Cameron Adams in New York City to pull back the curtain on what it really means to cover the AI revolution.
Alex traces his unconventional path from sports radio producer to ad-tech salesman to one of tech's most inci
Data as Memory: How AI Is Redefining Art and Creativity with Refik Anadol, Dataland
What happens when you stop seeing data as numbers and start seeing it as memory?
In this episode, pioneering AI artist Refik Anadol joins Cameron to explore what it looks like to build at the intersection of machine intelligence, nature, and human creativity — and why the most important question we can ask of AI isn't what it can do, but what it can help us feel.
Refik traces his journey from watc
Turning AI Into Infrastructure with Atlassian’s Sherif Mansour
Sherif Mansour has spent over 16 years at Atlassian helping shape products like Jira and Confluence. Now Head of AI at Atlassian, he’s focused on a bigger shift: how AI changes not just what we build, but how teams work together.
In this episode, Sherif and Cameron unpack why many organizations remain in “single-player mode” with AI, and why transformation happens when AI becomes part of collabora
Why AI Is Turning Product Managers Into Builders with Noam Lovinsky, CPO at Superhuman
AI isn’t just changing what products can do, it’s transforming how products get built.
In this episode, Superhuman CPO Noam Lovinsky joins Cameron Adams to unpack the shift to AI-first product organizations. From Grammarly’s transformation into Superhuman to the rise of agent-driven development, Noam explains why product teams are collapsing traditional roles and moving faster than ever.
They expl
The Future of Work Is Video: AI Avatars, Agents, and the New Creator Economy with Rong Yan, HeyGen
AI isn’t just changing how we create content. It’s changing how we communicate and who gets to create in the first place.
In this episode, HeyGen CTO Rong Yan joins Cameron to explore how AI-generated video is reshaping the way individuals and organizations share ideas.
From marketers and sales teams to everyday knowledge workers, Rong explains how tools like avatars and video agents are making it
The Future of Storytelling: AI Video, World Models, and What Comes Next with Alejandro Matamala Ortiz
AI isn’t just changing how we create content. It’s changing who gets to create, and what creation even looks like. In this episode, Runway Chief Innovation Officer Alejandro Matamala Ortiz joins Cameron to explore how AI video is unlocking a new era of storytelling. From a surgeon making short films to the rise of interactive, explorable worlds, Alejandro shares how tools once reserved for Hollywo
Startups in the AI Era: Peter Deng on What Will Win
The AI landscape is shifting every week. Startups are racing to challenge the status quo, and investors are closely watching the space.
Peter Deng, a visionary product leader turned investor, joins the podcast. Peter helped shape Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and ChatGPT, driving major launches like ChatGPT Enterprise, voice, and memory at OpenAI.
He is now a General Partner at Felicis, where h
The Fun-First Framework for AI Adoption with Allie K. Miller
Allie K. Miller has a rare superpower: she makes the cutting edge of AI feel clear, practical, and genuinely fun. Recently named to TIME’s list of the most influential people in AI, Allie has become one of the internet’s most trusted guides—breaking down new models, tools, and workflows for millions, from curious beginners to seasoned builders. In this episode, she joins Cameron Adams to unpack wh
Creative Generalists Will Win the AI Era - Google’s Natalie Piucco Shares Why
Natalie Piucco, Field CTO at Google Cloud, joins Cameron Adams for a wide-ranging conversation on AI, innovation, and what it really takes to lead through constant change. From her childhood on a banana farm to launching AI-powered products at Google, Natalie shares how creativity, trust, and learning shape high-performing teams.They explore why AI is a fundamentally creative technology, how psych
Inside OpenAI’s Global Expansion with Oliver Jay, Managing Director
How does one of the world’s fastest-growing companies approach international scale? How is localizing AI different than localizing any other product? Managing Director of OpenAI International, Oliver Jay, joins Cameron to answer these questions and give us a window into what it takes to deploy AI models globally. Drawing on his experience at Dropbox, Asana, and now OpenAI, Oliver explains why AI
The Skill AI Can’t Replace with Deloitte’s Future of Work Expert, Nic Scoble-Williams
Nic Scoble-Williams, Deloitte’s Global Future of Work and Agentic Workforce Leader, joins Cam to share how AI is reshaping creativity, leadership, and the way we design work. She breaks down what it means to be a futurist, how to ask better questions, and why human imagination is the new competitive advantage. She also dives into different cultural approaches to AI-use around the world, and what w
The Hidden Design Choices Behind Claude with Joel Lewenstein, Head of Product Design at Anthropic
Anthropic’s Head of Product Design Joel Lewenstein joins Cam Adams to explore the evolving relationship between humans and AI—how we build it, test it, and trust it.Joel unpacks how his team designs Claude’s character and behaviors to earn users’ trust, and why the best AI products feel less like tools and more like collaborators. He shares how friction can fuel creativity, how Anthropic’s “AI ven
Inside OpenAI’s Research-Led Growth with OpenAI Head of Revenue Ashley Kramer
OpenAI Head of Revenue Ashley Kramer joins Cam Adams to discuss how her revenue team is using AI to get ahead. She unpacks how her team bridges research and real-world results, turning powerful models into tools that transform how people work. Ashley also explains how the most boring AI use cases can spark the most valuable“aha” moments, and how OpenAI customers are scaling AI adoption from the to
Why Default AI Will Fail, and What Will Win Instead with Box CEO Aaron Levie
Box Cofounder and CEO Aaron Levie joins Cameron Adams to explore how AI is transforming creativity, scale, and ambition inside organizations. Aaron shares how teams can turn data into a superpower, reinvent their ways of working, and unlock new opportunities to multiply their impact, all while keeping human creativity and judgment at the center. He also discusses how startups can now compete at sc
Agents, Metaprompting and Tech-powered Parenting with HubSpot CTO Dharmesh Shah
HubSpot Cofounder and CTO, Dharmesh Shah, joins Cameron Adams to explore how AI agents are reshaping work, leadership, and creativity. From culture-as-a-product to tech-powered parenting, Dharmesh shares insights into why he’s still betting on humans, even in the age of powerful AI tools. From building culture as a product to tech-powered parenting, Dharmesh shares insights into why he’s still bet
Friction, Feedback and the Future of Creative Work with Designer Pablo Stanley
Designer, illustrator, and creative entrepreneur Pablo Stanley joins Cameron Adams, to explore how AI is transforming creativity. From vibe coding and cultivating taste to the rise of hyper-personalized content, they dive into how AI is reshaping the creative process. Pablo shares his thoughts on the role of taste, the importance of friction and how he uses vibe coding to bring prototypes to life.
Welcome to Prompted: AI, People and the Creative Spark
As AI evolves from just a tool to a trusted collaborator, the creative process is being rewritten. Prompted: AI, People and the Creative Spark is a show about this new era, when human inspiration meets artificial intelligence, and new forms of creativity, leadership, and invention take shape.Hosted by Canva’s Co-founder and Chief Product Officer, Cameron Adams, each episode brings you insight and
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