The team returns after the launch of Paul's new book, The AI Ready Human, and this time Matt plays the role of interviewer!
In this episode Matt and Paul discuss the book’s core framework: the “Magnificent Seven” stacked capabilities—readiness, organization, control, balance, motivation, resilience, and adaptability—created in response to programs that treat AI only as a tool and overemphasize prompt engineering.
The explore how to truly create evergreen skills in a world that is ever changing, and how to manage a form of AI that feels neither particularly artificial or intelligent.
They explore concerns about AI training on mixed-quality internet data, the possibility of moving from broad AI to narrower, task-specific systems, and the accelerating growth of AI-generated content. And they look at how the themes from the book have broader applicability to work and life.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
The AI-Ready Human on Amazon
The AI-Ready Human on Barnes and Noble
The AI-Ready Human on (the awesome) Bookshop.org
A Signed Hardback Copy of The AI-Ready Human
00:00 Show Returns and Book Launch
01:00 Special Episode Setup
02:29 Why 90 Days Format
05:48 Magnificent Seven Skills
06:25 Beyond Prompt Engineering
11:50 Evergreen Yet Changing
14:32 Maestro Leadership Metaphor
20:40 AI as Unreliable Teammate
25:02 Bias Data and Narrow AI
31:15 Ethics and authorship
32:28 AI content flood
34:42 AI traps and trust
36:52 Context and memory
41:41 Naming your AIs
45:41 Confidence and hallucinations
47:05 Autonomy mastery purpose
49:23 Rebuilding mastery at work
53:28 Adapting your human role
57:07 Wrap up and next topics
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