AI Strategist / Podcaster

Chris Benson

Co-host of Practical AI podcast. Chief AI strategist at Lockheed Martin. Focuses on practical AI adoption in enterprise and defense.

Known For

Practical AI podcastLockheed Martin AI

Canon

Biographies as Substitute Mentors

Environment Shapes Behavior More Than Willpower

The Hedonic Treadmill — Happiness Returns to Baseline

The Jagged Frontier: AI's Radical Unevenness Across Domains

Junior Hiring Collapse: AI Compresses the Entry-to-Expertise Pipeline

Meaning Comes from Responsibility, Not Happiness

Skunk Works: Small Teams, Clear Authority, Radical Autonomy

Focus Only on What You Can Control

Episodes

#Less about Models; More about ArchitectureSep 3, 2026 #Building the Foundation for the Agentic AI EraAug 28, 2026 #AI Proficiency: From Users to BuildersAug 25, 2026 #Models, Harnesses, and Multi-Agent SystemsAug 6, 2026 #Surviving the New Economics of a Post-Agentic WorldJul 23, 2026 #Image Generation and Visual Intelligence with Black Forest LabsJul 2, 2026 #Zero Trust for AI AgentsJun 11, 2026 #Breaking down the 2026 Stanford AI Index ReportJun 4, 2026 #Rebooting Enterprise AI with MCP and KubernetesMay 28, 2026 #Hermes Agent: Agents that grow with youMay 21, 2026 #The Myth of Model Wars: Open vs Closed AI in 2026May 7, 2026 #The mythos of Mythos and Allbirds takes flight to the neocloudApr 23, 2026 #Enterprise AI Adoption: Patterns That WorkOct 15, 2025 #331Episode 331: RAG and Reasoning — Whats Actually WorkingSep 1, 2025 #Multimodal AI in Practice: What Actually WorksJul 10, 2025 #AI in Agriculture: Practical ApplicationsJun 15, 2025 #AI at the Edge: Deployment ChallengesApr 15, 2025