Rana Gujral

Editorial bio

Rana Gujral has spent seven-plus years running Behavioral Signals, the In-Q-Tel-backed voice and emotion AI company that turns speech-signal processing and representation learning into production systems for intent, emotion and risk detection – the backbone of real-time trust, safety and deepfake defence.

His argument now, after that run – and before it, founding TiZE (acquired by Alchemy), leading Smart Home at Logitech, and driving a turnaround that set up a $4.4B IPO – is spelled out in his new book, The AI Instinct (Wiley, 2026, foreword by Kai-Fu Lee). Intelligence is only one axis of where AI needs to go. The other, missing in most of the public conversation, he calls Artificial General Experience: whether a model is actually changed by what happens to it. That's where he thinks the next real jump comes from.

Worth following if you want AI criticism from an operator who is still running the systems he's writing about.

By thehype editorial