Aug 25, 2026 · 24 min · 12 segments
In this episode, we sit down with Tiankai Feng, Data & AI Strategy Director at Thoughtworks, to discuss how AI is transforming industries, what professionals need to learn today, and whether AI will…
Tiankai FengGuest
Anil BajpaiHost
I can basically mention that I wrote over the last two and a half years three books now.
Um, and it's all started with a book called Humanizing Data Strategy, which was all about how to make data strategies more human-centric and how it's about making people part of the journey to drive value with data.
So I came up with a sequel called Humanizing AI Strategy, which was released now in the last year, which was all about basically how we can not only coexist with AI agents and AI models and how we do tasks in the future, but also about how we actually keep in mind that it's for the benefit of the human society and humanity as a whole-
... and not about replacing everyone with machines, and how that actually looks like in the reality in organizations.
Now, just recently, uh, just three weeks ago, I released a children's book that is called, uh, Robbie Just Wants To Help, and that is all about teaching AI concepts to kids, but it's told in a story, and I made my two kids, my two sons, the main characters of that book, so it's meaningful to me personally as well.
And basically, I'm all about, um, basically trying to teach the next generation early on about the do's and don'ts around AI and what it means, because they need to navigate that new world as well.
So one thing, because you wrote this book, you went deep into the discussion, so just wanted to know your perspective, how kids are able to relate with AI.
I mean, in a way, right? I think the kids are very smart and very adaptive, right? And as soon as they know once that AI generated things have certain flags to them, and they have certain tells about how you can identify when it's AI generated, they keep an eye on it, and they're much better at identifying those actually than we adults sometimes, right?
And it's funny, for example, when I was basically telling my older son that one of those advertisements we saw on the street is AI generated, he said, "How do you know?" And I said, "If you look at the hand of that person, that person has six fingers," right? I said.
I can basically mention that I wrote over the last two and a half years three books now.
Um, and it's all started with a book called Humanizing Data Strategy, which was all about how to make data strategies more human-centric and how it's about making people part of the journey to drive value with data.
So I came up with a sequel called Humanizing AI Strategy, which was released now in the last year, which was all about basically how we can not only coexist with AI agents and AI models and how we do tasks in the future, but also about how we actually keep in mind that it's for the benefit of the human society and humanity as a whole-
... and not about replacing everyone with machines, and how that actually looks like in the reality in organizations.
Now, just recently, uh, just three weeks ago, I released a children's book that is called, uh, Robbie Just Wants To Help, and that is all about teaching AI concepts to kids, but it's told in a story, and I made my two kids, my two sons, the main characters of that book, so it's meaningful to me personally as well.
And basically, I'm all about, um, basically trying to teach the next generation early on about the do's and don'ts around AI and what it means, because they need to navigate that new world as well.
So one thing, because you wrote this book, you went deep into the discussion, so just wanted to know your perspective, how kids are able to relate with AI.
I mean, in a way, right? I think the kids are very smart and very adaptive, right? And as soon as they know once that AI generated things have certain flags to them, and they have certain tells about how you can identify when it's AI generated, they keep an eye on it, and they're much better at identifying those actually than we adults sometimes, right?
And it's funny, for example, when I was basically telling my older son that one of those advertisements we saw on the street is AI generated, he said, "How do you know?" And I said, "If you look at the hand of that person, that person has six fingers," right? I said.
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