S3E13 Dark Patterns with Katerina Lesch

In this episode, we sit down with Kateřina Lesch—AI & Data leader, NLP expert, and former academic—to unpack the hidden forces shaping how technology influences decisions, leadership, and everyday communication. Kateřina shares her journey across academia, consulting, and industry, revealing how deep technical understanding changes leadership decisions beyond buzzwords. We explore ethical AI, language models, and why misconceptions about AI persist, especially in public discourse and on LinkedIn. Beyond technology, this conversation moves into resilience, identity, and motherhood. Kateřina reflects on how raising “little neural networks” reshaped her leadership style, decision-making, and boundaries and what the next generation should remember about how we used AI and power in this defining decade.