‘Some things are better without AI’: How KEXP’s new tech chief will amplify human connection

Jyoti Shukla, chief product and technology officer at KEXP, inside the live room at the Seattle radio station. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Seattle indie radio powerhouse KEXP has hired tech veteran Jyoti Shukla as its first chief product and technology officer, with an unusual mandate in an era ruled by automated playlists: to build digital products that put human connection ahead of AI algorithms. A Seattle native who graduated from the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business