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Published Articles
Bylined essays on AI, governance, and leadership.
September 10, 2026
The Model War Is Over. The Infrastructure War Has Begun.
The AI race is no longer about models. It’s about who controls the bottlenecks.
“Use the best models. Watch the benchmarks. Experiment aggressively. But don’t confuse a model decision with an AI strategy.”
September 6, 2026
How AI Actually Thinks (Spoiler: It Doesn’t) and The Four Critical Limitations Every Leader Must Understand
AI doesn’t “know” anything. Large language models are sophisticated pattern-matching engines — four limitations every leader must understand before trusting the output.
“Understanding these limitations is the first step toward wielding AI wisely—the foundation for healthy skepticism that prevents leaders from blindly trusting output just because it sounds intelligent.”
August 25, 2026
America Needs AI to Survive. Working families also need to survive it
Every few weeks another multibillion-dollar AI data center is announced. A tech giant celebrates a new milestone. A small town wonders what it just signed away.
“People rarely oppose technology because they dislike progress; they oppose it when they realize progress no longer includes them.”
July 28, 2026
The greatest mistake in AI transformation: automating what you should eliminate
Most AI programs speed up work that should have been deleted. You get a faster version of a legacy process, a real efficiency number, and none of the transformation.
“Automation makes the old way slightly better. Reimagination asks the harder question: Why are we doing this at all?”
July 16, 2026
Why OpenAI could become the next Netscape
Every platform shift starts with a miracle and ends with a choke point. The company that defines a category is rarely the company that captures it.
“The lesson was simple: if your rival owns the layer beneath you, your brilliance may become their menu option.”
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June 28, 2026
The AI Developmental Void: mitigating the hollowing out of the international leadership pipeline
Automation is removing the entry-level work that produced senior operators. Boards will feel it in eight years, and by then the cohort will not exist.
“When you automate these entry-level jobs away, you aren’t just cutting out friction. You are cutting out the very training grounds where people learn how to do the work.”
May 18, 2026
Quantum Computing: What Directors Need to Know Now
Quantum is early, but the governance questions — cryptography, long-lived sensitive data, capital allocation — are already on the board agenda.
April 8, 2026
Governing AI Before It Governs You
AI will reshape the business whether the board governs it or not. The only question is which way round.
June 22, 2026
From Information to Insight: the AI-fueled value migration marketers must master
Marketing was built on a pyramid where information was scarce and expensive at the top. That economics has inverted, and the org chart has not caught up.
“AI is turning that pyramid upside down.”
Quoted & profiled
Reported pieces and profiles where Liat is a named source.
CIO Global · August 2026
Leading Responsible AI Transformation
Named one of CIO Global’s 10 Distinguished Leaders Making an Impact in USA, 2026. Cover story, Issue 31.
“AI can process information, but human judgment will always shape the future.”
The Enterprise World · August 2025
Most Influential Advisor Driving AI-Powered PLG Strategies – 2025
Cover profile in the Americas edition: how Liat turns AI into strategic advantage for product-led growth, drawing on her Microsoft, Philips, and Qualcomm years.
The Wall Street Journal · February 21, 2018
How Low-Code Can You Go? IT Tests ‘Disruptive’ App Development
On low-code development reaching customer-facing enterprise software. Reported by Sara Castellanos.
The Economist · September 4, 2014
The language of the internet of things
Technology Quarterly on the interoperability fight, with the AllSeen Alliance — which Liat chaired — at its centre.
MT/Sprout (Netherlands)
Liat Ben-Zur wil van Philips een databedrijf maken — cover story
Cover of the Dutch management monthly, on being recruited out of Silicon Valley to turn Philips into a data company.
Podcasts, panels & keynotes
Fifteen years of recorded appearances, in one place.
Podcasts & interviews
Fit Happens: The Executive Search Podcast · September 10, 2026 · E23
What AI Is Doing To Leadership with Liat Ben-Zur
A leader who looks safe on paper might be the riskiest hire you make in the AI era.
Panels & moderation
GeekWire · Agents of Transformation, Seattle, March 2026 · Panelist
Agents of Transformation
International Women’s Forum · 2025 Conference, Seattle · Fireside conversation
The Nexus of AI and Sustainability
Main-stage keynotes
Collaboration Summit 2014 · AllSeen Alliance
It takes a village to raise a smart connected world
Media inquiries
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