Are you a thought leader grappling with how to adapt to the rise of AI? In this episode, The Recognized Authority podcast host Alastair McDermott sits down with co-host Alistair McBride to discus a pivotal shift. They discuss
- The urgent need for AI literacy among experts and leaders
- Navigating AI's productivity benefits vs credibility risks
- Ethical concerns like bias, privacy, and intellectual property
- Extending thought leadership to broader AI business applications
Tune in as these forward-thinking unpack unknown unknowns and try to map out this rapidly evolving frontier that you can't afford to ignore.
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Key Insights:
- AI presents an urgent priority that businesses and thought leaders must address
- AI increases productivity but could compromise credibility if misused
- Thought leaders need "AI literacy" to responsibly understand and apply the technology
- AI has profound implications across business processes, privacy, IP, society
Strategies:
- Continuously evaluate and adopt new AI capabilities as the space rapidly evolves
- Establish ethical AI usage policies, including vetting training data sources
- Run AI models locally to avoid feeding private client data into cloud services
- Use AI as a supportive tool, not to fully automate authorship
Quotes:
"AI is coming for us first. So, this is kind of like the total reversal of technology in the past where we've usually been kind of inoculated against it." - Alistair McBride (9:31)
"We need to be literate; we need to be AI literate. We need to understand how these systems work." - Alastair McDermott (16:49)
"We need to figure out how this is going to impact us because this is going to change businesses. It's going to change society. It's going to change industries." - Alastair McDermott (17:53)
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