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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