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Outmaneuver Complexity: AI Gold Rush 2.0 & Adaptive Capacity with David Woods, PhD

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What happens when our increasingly interconnected systems face unexpected challenges? Dr. David Woods, pioneer of resilience engineering, explores how organizations can build the adaptive capacity needed to survive in an age of growing complexity.
Drawing from decades studying high-risk industries, Woods frames our current technological moment with historical perspective. The "second AI gold rush" unfolds with familiar patterns – promising seamless automation while overlooking the inevitable new complexities and vulnerabilities that emerge. Through compelling examples from Boeing's 737 MAX disasters to financial system collapses, he demonstrates how brittle systems eventually break when organizations prioritize short-term productivity over long-term resilience.
Woods introduces core principles of adaptive organizations – graceful extensibility, the capacity to reconfigure and reprioritize under pressure, and the critical ability to anticipate approaching saturation points before collapse occurs. He challenges the linear thinking that dominates most organizations, explaining why reframing – updating our mental models to match changing reality – proves so difficult yet essential for survival.
Whether you're navigating organizational challenges, interested in the future of human-AI collaboration, or seeking to understand resilience in an uncertain world, this episode provides essential frameworks for thinking differently about complexity, surprise, and adaptation when failure isn't an option.

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Dept. of Integrated Systems Engineering, David Woods, PhD

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March 25, 2025

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Chapters

1. The New Version of an Old Story (00:00:00)

2. Coping with Complexity in AI (00:06:07)

3. Understanding Adaptive Capacity (00:09:02)

4. The Second AI Gold Rush (00:17:52)

5. DevOps and Software Resilience (00:20:39)

6. Building Adaptive Capacity in Organizations (00:31:30)

7. Foundations of Resilience Engineering (00:34:32)

8. The Component Substitution Fallacy (00:47:57)

9. Adaptive Capacity and Combat Power (00:48:17)

10. The Impact of Change and Surprise (00:52:11)

11. The Role of AI in Energy Consumption (01:02:14)

12. Graceful Extensibility Explained (01:02:24)

13. Software Infrastructure and Interdependencies (01:15:31)

14. Responding to Critical Incidents (01:26:34)

15. Visualization and Reframing for Adaptation (01:41:56)

127 episodes

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What happens when our increasingly interconnected systems face unexpected challenges? Dr. David Woods, pioneer of resilience engineering, explores how organizations can build the adaptive capacity needed to survive in an age of growing complexity.
Drawing from decades studying high-risk industries, Woods frames our current technological moment with historical perspective. The "second AI gold rush" unfolds with familiar patterns – promising seamless automation while overlooking the inevitable new complexities and vulnerabilities that emerge. Through compelling examples from Boeing's 737 MAX disasters to financial system collapses, he demonstrates how brittle systems eventually break when organizations prioritize short-term productivity over long-term resilience.
Woods introduces core principles of adaptive organizations – graceful extensibility, the capacity to reconfigure and reprioritize under pressure, and the critical ability to anticipate approaching saturation points before collapse occurs. He challenges the linear thinking that dominates most organizations, explaining why reframing – updating our mental models to match changing reality – proves so difficult yet essential for survival.
Whether you're navigating organizational challenges, interested in the future of human-AI collaboration, or seeking to understand resilience in an uncertain world, this episode provides essential frameworks for thinking differently about complexity, surprise, and adaptation when failure isn't an option.

David Woods on LinkedIn

Dept. of Integrated Systems Engineering, David Woods, PhD

NWO Intro with Boyd

March 25, 2025

Flow Learning Lab

Find us on X. @NoWayOutcast
Substack: The Whirl of ReOrientation
Want to develop your organization’s capacity for free and independent action (Organic Success)? Learn more and follow us at:
https://www.aglx.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@AGLXConsulting
https://www.linkedin.com/company/aglx-consulting-llc/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/briandrivera
https://www.linkedin.com/in/markjmcgrath1
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevemccrone
Stay in the Loop. Don't have time to listen to the podcast? Want to make some snowmobiles? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to receive deeper insights on current and past episodes.
Recent podcasts where you’ll also find Mark and Ponch:

The No Bell Podcast Episode 24
...

  continue reading

Chapters

1. The New Version of an Old Story (00:00:00)

2. Coping with Complexity in AI (00:06:07)

3. Understanding Adaptive Capacity (00:09:02)

4. The Second AI Gold Rush (00:17:52)

5. DevOps and Software Resilience (00:20:39)

6. Building Adaptive Capacity in Organizations (00:31:30)

7. Foundations of Resilience Engineering (00:34:32)

8. The Component Substitution Fallacy (00:47:57)

9. Adaptive Capacity and Combat Power (00:48:17)

10. The Impact of Change and Surprise (00:52:11)

11. The Role of AI in Energy Consumption (01:02:14)

12. Graceful Extensibility Explained (01:02:24)

13. Software Infrastructure and Interdependencies (01:15:31)

14. Responding to Critical Incidents (01:26:34)

15. Visualization and Reframing for Adaptation (01:41:56)

127 episodes

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