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  • ⁠Do You Know Yourself Well Enough to Let AI Make Decisions for You? - with Nicholas Skytland Former NASA chief technologist

    Nicholas Skytland spent 25 years at NASA, where he helped bring people from around the world together through hackathons. He joins Henrik and Jeremy to share what makes hackathons work, why different perspectives matter, and how to help people through the moment they want to give up.

    Nick is now bringing that approach to kids. When his wife wanted to run an AI hackathon at her school, restrictions on AI tools led Nick and his team to build Launch.Kids. At one event, 36 teams created 500 applications in a single day.

    Try Launch.Kids: If you're a student, parent, or teacher interested in learning how to build with AI, we'd love for you to try out Launch.Kids, mentioned on the show. The first 100 listeners can sign up at https://launch.kids/welcome/beyondtheprompt for a free month of credit.

    The conversation then turns to a bigger question: how well do we really know our own values? Nick, Henrik and Jeremy explore how to communicate what matters to us when working with AI, and why we shouldn't hand over our judgment just because technology makes it easy.

    Key Takeaways

    • Hackathons are an underused tool
      Henrik and Jeremy reflect on how hackathons bring different people together, encourage experimentation, and create value even when they don't lead to a finished product.
    • Expect the moment of despair
      Getting stuck is part of building something new. Nick explains why good hackathons need mentors, encouragement, and a bit of fun to help people push through it.
    • The better you know yourself, the better you can use AI
      Henrik and Jeremy discuss why understanding your own values, preferences, and ways of thinking helps you give AI better direction and recognize when its answers don't fit.
    • Don't let AI do all the thinking for you
      AI can make decisions easier, but that doesn't mean we should stop questioning its answers. Henrik and Jeremy reflect on the importance of bringing our own judgment to the conversation, especially when we're dealing with something we don't know much about.

    Launch.Kids: Launch.Kids
    Nicholas' LinkedIn: LinkedIn/NicholasSkytland

    00:00 Intro: Don't Outsource Your Judgment to AI
    00:20 Meet Nicholas Skytland
    00:46 How NASA Opened Up Innovation
    03:45 Measuring the ROI of Hackathons
    05:04 Getting Past the Barriers to Open Innovation
    07:51 Bringing Hackathons to Kids
    09:19 Building Launch.Kids
    14:44 Why “Just Play With AI” Isn't Enough
    18:19 The Moment of Despair
    21:36 How to Run a Hackathon
    23:39 The Process, Not the Product
    25:56 Inside Anthropic's Gathering of Faith Leaders
    31:33 Be an Active Shaper of AI
    34:36 Can AI learn good judgement? 
    39:00 Who Gets to Decide What's Good?
    42:40 Communicating Your Values to AI
    44:25 Don't Outsource Your Judgment
    46:42 Henrik's Personal AI Playbook
    51:10 The Debrief

    For more prompts, tips, and AI tools. Check out our website: https://www.beyondtheprompt.ai/ or follow Jeremy or Henrik on Linkedin:

    Henrik: https://www.linkedin.com/in/werdelin
    Jeremy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremyutley

    Show edited by Emma Cecilie Jensen.

    1 hr 8 min
  • What Will You Do With the Time AI Gives Back to You? - with Alex Kuilman, Founder of The Practice

    Alexander Kuilman works with CEOs and executive teams to bring more humanity into how they lead. He joins Henrik and Jeremy to explore why, if leaders know AI matters, getting people to actually use it can still be so difficult.

    Using Bob Kegan and Lisa Lahey’s Immunity to Change framework, Alex argues that “I don’t have time” can mask deeper fears about competence, relevance, and what happens when AI can do work you previously thought made you valuable. They also explore why psychological safety matters if people are going to admit what they don’t know and actually experiment.

    The conversation ends with the “AI vampire” and Alex’s idea of “corporate numbing”: AI makes us more productive, but instead of taking the time back, we often fill it with more work. Which leaves a bigger question: when AI gives us time back, what do we actually want to do with it?

    Key Takeaways: 

    • AI resistance may be about fear, not time
      “I don’t have time” can mask deeper fears about competence, relevance, and what happens when AI can do work you thought made you valuable.
    • People need to feel safe enough to experiment
      Psychological safety gives people room to admit what they don’t know, try something new, and risk looking incompetent.
    • How leaders make people feel matters
      Henrik and Jeremy realize that some of the AI leaders they admire don’t just have good tactics. They make people around them feel safe enough to try.
    • Don’t let AI give you more work
      The “AI vampire” turns productivity gains into more work. Alex’s idea of “corporate numbing” asks whether staying busy is sometimes easier than deciding what we actually want to do with the time AI gives back. Alex Kuilman (transcript - fina…

    The Practice: bethepractice.com
    Alex's LinkedIn: LinkedIn/AlexKuilman
    Immunity to Change by Robert Kegan & Lisa Laskow
    Amy Edmondson on Psychological Safety: Psychological Safety

    00:00 Intro: The Problem of Corporate Numbing
    00:23 Meet Alexander Kuilman
    04:45 Why Aren’t People Using AI More?
    06:49 The Hidden Assumptions Blocking Change
    08:08 Jeremy’s Travel Problem
    14:12 What Are People Really Afraid of With AI?
    16:02 Stop Making Time to Experiment
    22:25 Psychological Safety and AI Adoption
    32:56 How to Hold Yourself
    38:57 The Leaders Who Make People Feel Safe
    40:33 What If AI Helps Us Think Less?
    44:13 The AI Vampire
    46:10 Corporate Numbing
    54:08 Your Humanity Is the Advantage
    58:05 The Debrief

    📜 Read the transcript for this episode: Here!

    For more prompts, tips, and AI tools. Check out our website: https://www.beyondtheprompt.ai/ or follow Jeremy or Henrik on Linkedin:

    Henrik: https://www.linkedin.com/in/werdelin
    Jeremy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremyutley

    Show edited by Emma Cecilie Jensen.

    1 hr 5 min
  • How Do You Run a Company When You Can’t See Six Months Ahead? - with Axios CEO Jim VandeHei

    Jim VandeHei joins Henrik and Jeremy around the launch of his new book, Simplify: Do 50% More With 50% Less, co-authored with Mike Allen and Roy Schwartz. In the conversation, Jim shares how he’s leading Axios through AI, from turning himself into an “AI lab rat” to rethinking how the company works.

    At Axios, Jim gave everyone access to ChatGPT, brought in training, and invited employees who took naturally to the technology to help others across the company. He also shares how AI fellows working directly with him prototype new ideas, why companies should delete unnecessary work before automating it, and how Axios is preparing for a world where more information moves from the open web into social platforms and personalized LLMs.

    The conversation ends with a bigger question: what story are we telling people about an AI-enabled future? Jim worries that the negative case for AI is vivid and easy to understand, while the positive case often amounts to curing cancer or eliminating work. He makes the case for something more tangible: using AI to make people’s work and lives better while preserving human connection and the feeling that what people do still matters.

    Jim's new book: Simplify: Do 50% more with 50% less
    “Confessions of an AI Lab Rat”: Read here!
    Axios: Axios.com
    Jim's LinkedIn: LinkedIn.com/JimVandeHei

    Key Takeaways

    • Leaders need to become AI lab rats
      Leaders need firsthand experience with AI to understand what it can do and give others permission to experiment.
    • Give the CEO an AI “SEAL team”
      Jim’s AI fellows help him prototype ideas quickly, stay current, and experiment outside the normal company processes.
    • Delete before you automate
      Before using AI to make existing work faster, ask which meetings, processes, and activities shouldn’t exist at all.
    • AI needs a better story about what goes right
      The negative future of AI is easy to picture. Jim argues we need a more tangible vision of how AI can improve people’s lives without losing purpose and human connection.

    00:00 Intro: Predictions for the future
    00:46 Meet Jim VandeHei
    01:06 Becoming an AI Lab Rat
    04:21 How Axios Got Everyone Using AI
    05:46 Who Gets the Most Out of AI?
    08:27 The AI Understanding Gap
    11:04 How Jim Keeps Up With AI
    14:20 Building Axios for an AI Future
    20:47 The CEO’s AI “SEAL Team”
    23:52 Writing for Humans and LLMs
    26:49 Delete Before You Automate
    30:46 The Monthly Mentality
    35:58 AI-Assisted Writing and Authenticity
    41:47 The Coming Political Backlash
    47:42 A Better Story for AI
    55:25 The Debrief

    📜 Read the transcript for this episode: Here!

    For more prompts, tips, and AI tools. Check out our website: https://www.beyondtheprompt.ai/ or follow Jeremy or Henrik on Linkedin:

    Henrik: https://www.linkedin.com/in/werdelin
    Jeremy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremyutley

    Show edited by Emma Cecilie Jensen.

    1 hr 3 min
  • From Knowledge Worker to Intelligence Worker: Why Human Judgment Matters More With AI - with OpenAI’s Brice Challamel

    After helping lead AI adoption at Moderna, Brice Chalamel has a new goal at OpenAI: help create 1,000 AI adoption success stories across large organizations.

    Brice takes Henrik and Jeremy inside how work happens at OpenAI, where Slack has largely replaced internal email, agents help process information and draft responses, and some workflows are already moving agent to agent. But as AI takes on more responsibility, Brice argues that trust can’t be mandated. It has to be earned.

    The conversation goes beyond tools into what it actually takes to lead people through change. Brice explains why, in a ten-step journey, nine steps may only be halfway, why our existing mental models shape how we respond to AI, and why leaders need to listen before trying to change someone’s mind.

    They also explore Brice’s idea that AI could move us from “knowledge workers” to “intelligence workers,” a personal story about his mother using ChatGPT while caring for his father with Alzheimer’s, and why the benefits of AI need to extend beyond the people already living in abundance.

    Key Takeaways

    • Trust in AI has to be earned
    • As agents take on more responsibility, people need experience with them before they’re willing to hand over judgment and communication.
    • AI adoption is a mind game and a heart game
    • Successful change depends not just on what people know about AI, but on what they believe, fear, and care about.
    • Nine steps can be only halfway there
    • The final stage of transformation is often where the hardest work begins and assumptions need to be questioned.
    • We’re moving from knowledge workers to intelligence workers
    • As AI handles more information processing, human value shifts toward judgment, perspective, influence, and decision-making.
    • Listen before you think
    • Changing minds starts with understanding the experiences and mental models behind someone’s point of view, not simply making a better argument.

      Brice's LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/bricechallamel/

      Website: powerofwhy.ai

      00:00 Intro: From Knowledge Worker to Intelligence Worker
      00:30 Meet Brice Chalamel
      01:18 From Moderna to OpenAI
      04:50 The Mission: 1,000 AI Success Stories
      07:45 How Work Happens at OpenAI
      08:59 When Agents Talk to Agents
      10:56 Trust Has to Be Earned
      15:22 Brice’s Principles for Change
      16:45 Nine Steps Is Halfway There
      25:21 The Mind Game
      30:24 Why Leaders Resist AI
      35:28 The Human Side of AI
      37:37 When ChatGPT Became a Lifeline
      41:56 From Knowledge Worker to Intelligence Worker
      43:37 Agency in the AI Era
      46:31 Who Gets to Benefit From AI?
      51:39 What Our Fear of AI Reveals
      56:18 Listen Before You Think
      01:03:07 The Debrief

      📜 Read the transcript for this episode: Here!

      For more prompts, tips, and AI tools. Check out our website: https://www.beyondtheprompt.ai/ or follow Jeremy or Henrik on Linkedin:

      Henrik: https://www.linkedin.com/in/werdelin
      Jeremy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremyutley

      Show edited by Emma Cecilie Jensen.

      1 hr 13 min
    • What Happens When AI Adoption Actually Works? - with Eric Porres, Chief AI Officer of Logitech

      A year ago, Logitech had people experimenting with AI. Today, Eric says he can’t think of a single part of the company that isn’t building, exploring, or creating something with it.

      Eric shares what helped make that happen. There’s a Build Advisor that helps employees figure out what to build and connects them with people who may have already worked on something similar. AI in Action moments are now part of company and leadership meetings. And before leadership presents to the board, there’s an expectation that their work goes through an AI Board Advisor first.

      Henrik, Jeremy, and Eric also get into what comes next: how to measure whether all this AI activity actually creates value, why Eric built AI systems to manage his own information overload and sleep, and why creating something new should come with another question: what old report, process, or way of working can now disappear?

      Key Takeaways

      • Embed AI into how work gets done
      • AI becomes more valuable when it’s built into existing workflows and expectations, rather than simply made available for people to use.
      • Make AI adoption visible and repeatable
      • Logitech keeps AI present through AI in Action moments, leadership routines, office hours, shared Gems, and a 175-person volunteer Champions Network.
      • Build resources that help people help themselves
      • Tools like the Build Advisor give employees a place to start, surface work that already exists, and connect them with colleagues who have tackled similar problems.
      • Ask what you can stop doing
      • Eric argues that every new AI-enabled artifact should come with another question: what old report, process, or way of working can now disappear?

        Eric's website: porres.com/

        Eric's LinkedIn: linkedin.com/eporres/
        Logitech: www.logitech.com/

        00:00 Embedding AI Into the Workflow
        00:52 Meet Eric Porres
        01:15 The Cambrian Explosion of AI
        06:20 Measuring the Value of AI
        11:16 The Build Advisor
        16:12 Keeping Up With AI
        19:43 Making AI Part of the Culture
        21:37 The AI Board Advisor
        25:51 Building an AI Champions Network
        29:15 Eric’s Personal AI Stack
        32:17 The AI Vampire Problem
        40:59 Building a Deep Memory
        46:49 What Can AI Help You Delete?
        55:19 The Debrief

        📜 Read the transcript for this episode: Here!

        For more prompts, tips, and AI tools. Check out our website: https://www.beyondtheprompt.ai/ or follow Jeremy or Henrik on Linkedin:

        Henrik: https://www.linkedin.com/in/werdelin
        Jeremy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremyutley

        Show edited by Emma Cecilie Jensen.

        1 hr 6 min
      • Why Companies That Are Great at Innovation Still Fail - with Stanford Professor Charles O'Reilly

        Most companies know how to innovate. Far fewer know how to scale innovation.

        Charles introduces the explore versus exploit framework, explaining why the same systems that help organizations succeed today can make them resistant to change tomorrow. As companies mature, they become better at serving existing customers, improving existing products, and optimizing existing processes. The harder question is how to create space for experimentation without undermining the business that already exists.

        Henrik, Jeremy, and Charles explore what this means in the age of AI. They discuss whether AI should be viewed as a substitute or a complement, why Microsoft's transformation under Satya Nadella succeeded, how Amazon has built exploration into its operating system, and why leaders don't create adaptable organizations through vision alone. They do it by shaping culture through incentives, systems, and the behaviors they reward.

        Key Takeaways: 

        • The biggest challenge isn't generating ideas. It's scaling them.
        • Many organizations are good at innovation. The difficult part is giving promising ideas the support they need to grow.
        • Great companies become trapped by what made them successful.
        • The metrics, incentives, and culture that optimize today's business can make it harder to adapt to tomorrow's.
        • Culture is built through systems.
        • Leadership principles only matter when they're reflected in hiring, incentives, performance reviews, and everyday behavior.
        • The goal isn't to predict the future. It's to discover it.
        • The most adaptable organizations build processes that help them experiment, learn, and uncover new opportunities as the world changes.

          Charles' Stanford profile: stanford.edu/faculty/charles-oreilly

          00:00 Intro: Why Companies Die Fast
          00:36 Meet Charles O'Reilly
          02:01 Explore Versus Exploit
          03:50 AI Substitute Or Complement
          06:51 Adaptability As Culture
          09:19 Resistance To Change
          12:32 Microsoft Culture Turnaround
          15:25 Ambidexterity And Lifespans
          18:20 Ideate Incubate Scale
          20:10 Scaling Needs Separation
          24:44 Amazon PRFAQ Machine
          34:33 Rituals And Failure Signals
          38:05 The Debrief

          📜 Read the transcript for this episode: here!

          For more prompts, tips, and AI tools. Check out our website: https://www.beyondtheprompt.ai/ or follow Jeremy or Henrik on Linkedin:

          Henrik: https://www.linkedin.com/in/werdelin
          Jeremy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremyutley

          Show edited by Emma Cecilie Jensen.

          44 min
        • What You Can Learn From Asking AI for Brutal Honesty About Yourself - with Bestselling Author Daniel Pink

          The conversation begins with an experiment that caught Jeremy's attention. Dan asked ChatGPT to tell him what his friends wouldn't. From questions about his blind spots to what people might say behind his back, some responses felt completely wrong, while others landed with surprising force. Rather than accepting every answer, Dan explains why the real value comes from wrestling with AI's perspective, not simply believing it.

          From there, Henrik, Jeremy, and Dan explore what it takes to use AI well. They discuss intellectual humility, prompting models to challenge rather than flatter us, and why AI works best as a sparring partner that exposes weaknesses in our thinking. The conversation also touches on taste, agency, and why, in a world where execution is becoming easier, discernment and original thinking become even more valuable.

          Key Takeaways: 

          • Use AI to make your thinking visible
          • The best AI conversations don't just generate answers. They help you understand your own assumptions, reactions, and ideas more clearly.
          • Treat AI as a sparring partner
          • Challenge AI's responses, ask it to critique your work, and use it to strengthen your thinking rather than replace it.
          • Taste is developed by creating
          • As AI makes execution easier, judgment and discernment become more valuable. The best way to develop both is by creating, not just consuming.
          • Agency depends on context
          • People don't become more agentic through willpower alone. The right environment, with autonomy and room to take risks, makes initiative possible.

            Daniel's website: danpink.com

            LinkedIn: linkedin.com/danielpink
            AI Self-Reflection Prompts: danpink.com/ai-guide/

            00:00 AI as a Brutally Honest Advisor
            00:32 Meet Daniel Pink
            00:47 AI for Self-Knowledge
            01:40 A Brutally Honest AI
            06:10 What Do People Say Behind Your Back?
            07:45 Should You Trust AI's Advice?
            13:28 The Fear of Irrelevance
            17:44 Intellectual Humility
            20:04 AI as a Sparring Partner
            24:35 Teaching AI to Think Like You
            27:38 Why Taste Matters
            29:59 Agency Starts with Context
            37:08 A Future That's a Little Better
            41:49 Nostalgia vs. Reality
            45:18 The Debrief

            📜 Read the transcript for this episode: Here!

            For more prompts, tips, and AI tools. Check out our website: https://www.beyondtheprompt.ai/ or follow Jeremy or Henrik on Linkedin:

            Henrik: https://www.linkedin.com/in/werdelin
            Jeremy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremyutley

            Show edited by Emma Cecilie Jensen.

            51 min
          • Are You Qualified to Challenge Your Team on AI? - with Geoff Woods, Author of The AI-Driven Leader

            Geoff Woods returns to Beyond the Prompt to discuss the updated edition of The AI-Driven Leader and what has changed over the past 18 months. Rather than focusing on the latest AI models, Geoff argues that leaders need to use AI themselves before asking others to, using it to think more clearly, shape strategy, and make better decisions.

            The conversation explores why many organizations confuse access with adoption, why strategy should come before use cases, and how AI can change the way leaders approach everything from business strategy to organizational design. Along the way, Henrik and Jeremy challenge Geoff's ideas on authorship, judgment, and whether understanding AI changes what leaders believe is possible.

            Key Takeaways:

            • Leaders need to use AI themselves
            • Using AI personally is what qualifies leaders to shape strategy and lead others from practice rather than theory.
            • Use AI to improve your thinking
            • The biggest opportunity isn't automating work. It's using AI to think better, solve better problems, and imagine new possibilities.
            • Start with problems, not use cases
            • Begin with the biggest challenges facing the business, then use AI to rethink how to solve them.
            • AI still needs human judgment
            • AI can generate ideas, but people are still responsible for reviewing the output and standing behind it.
            • Focus AI on your highest-value work
            • Use AI to amplify the small set of activities where your human strengths create the greatest impact.

              The AI-Driven Leader: aileadership.com

              Geoff's LinkedIn: linkedin/geoff-woods

              00:00 Are You Qualified to Lead on AI?
              00:35 Meet Geoff Woods
              00:54 The AI Slop Dilemma
              05:48 Putting Your Stamp of Approval
              09:19 What Changed in 18 Months
              12:13 Access Isn't Adoption
              15:50 Why Leaders Can't Delegate AI
              20:09 Strategy Before Use Cases
              22:02 BarkBox's AI Strategy
              26:23 Reinventing Strategy with AI
              33:11 Compressing Months into Hours
              37:22 Human Skills as Superpowers
              42:46 The Debrief
               

              📜 Read the transcript for this episode: are-you-qualified-to-challenge-your-team-on-ai-with-geoff-woods-author-of-the-ai-driven-leader/transcript

              For more prompts, tips, and AI tools. Check out our website: https://www.beyondtheprompt.ai/ or follow Jeremy or Henrik on Linkedin:

              Henrik: https://www.linkedin.com/in/werdelin
              Jeremy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremyutley

              Show edited by Emma Cecilie Jensen.

              54 min
            • The Unexpected Economics of AGI - with Christian Catalini, Tech Founder and Co-Creator of Libra

              Christian believes the AI era will be defined less by generating outputs and more by evaluating them. As intelligence becomes cheaper and more accessible, the people who create the most value may be those who can distinguish good work from exceptional work and help guide increasingly capable systems.

              The conversation explores verification, judgment, and why expertise still matters in a world where AI can perform many tasks at a high level. Christian explains why today's experts are both highly valuable and simultaneously training the systems that may eventually replace parts of their work.

              Jeremy and Henrik also explore what this means at a personal level. They discuss building AI agents that reflect your own preferences, creating personal verification systems, and why AI may make it easier to learn new skills, switch careers, and pursue more ambitious ideas.

              Key Takeaways: 

              • Verification becomes more valuable as intelligence gets cheaper
              • As AI makes generating outputs easier, the ability to recognize what is actually good becomes increasingly important.
              • Experts are training their own replacements
              • The people best positioned to verify AI outputs are also helping codify the expertise that trains future systems.
              • Human value shifts from doing to directing
              • As AI handles more execution, people create value through judgment, direction, and orchestration.
              • Build your own verification system
              • The best AI users are developing agents, workflows, and tools that reflect their own preferences and standards.

                Christian's LinkedIn: linkedin.com/ccatalini/

                Christian's X: x.com/ccatalini
                Christian's website: catalini.com
                Economics of AGI: full paper
                Jeremy's Persona File Template: YouTube/The8Files

                00:00 Non-Measurable Frontiers
                00:32 Meet Christian Catalini
                01:08 The Economics of AGI
                03:09 Why Verification Matters
                06:37 Can Everything Be Measured?
                10:32 The Rise of the Verifier
                14:35 When Intelligence Gets Cheap
                21:46 Building Your Verification Harness
                24:08 Human + AI Augmentation
                30:18 Persona Files and Privacy
                33:12 Reasons for Optimism
                36:00 Career Switching in the AI Era
                39:31 The Debrief

                📜 Read the transcript for this episode: the-unexpected-economics-of-agi-with-christian-catalini-tech-founder-and-co-creator-of-libra/transcript

                For more prompts, tips, and AI tools. Check out our website: https://www.beyondtheprompt.ai/ or follow Jeremy or Henrik on Linkedin:

                Henrik: https://www.linkedin.com/in/werdelin
                Jeremy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremyutley

                Show edited by Emma Cecilie Jensen.

                54 min
              • Why Fear Kills Curiosity and What That Means for AI - with Chantel Prat, Cognitive Neuroscientist

                Chantel Prat studies how different brains make sense of the world. Her work starts from a simple idea: every experience leaves a mark. The inputs we consume shape how we think, what we notice, and ultimately who we become.

                The conversation explores why people often choose familiar rewards over uncertain opportunities to learn. Chantel explains the tension between exploration and exploitation, why curiosity is essential for growth, and how fear can prevent us from engaging with new technologies like AI.

                They also discuss theory of mind, cognitive offloading, and what happens when we increasingly rely on AI for thinking. The goal is not simply to do better work, but to use AI in ways that help us become better versions of ourselves.

                Key Takeaways:

                • Curiosity requires safety
                • When people feel threatened, they become defensive rather than exploratory. Fear gets in the way of learning.
                • Better inputs create better outputs
                • Every experience leaves a footprint on the brain. The ideas, conversations, and information we consume shape how we think and who we become.
                • We naturally favor certainty over exploration
                • Our brains are biased toward familiar rewards, even when something new may offer greater long-term value.
                • Curiosity starts with admitting you might be wrong
                • Learning requires recognizing that you do not already have the answer. Without that openness, exploration never begins.
                • Use AI to become better, not just produce more
                • The most important question is not what AI can do for you, but what you still want to get better at yourself.

                  Chantel Prat: linktr.ee/chantelprat

                  The Neuroscience of You: The-Neuroscience-of-you/book

                  00:00 Curiosity Versus Threat
                  00:31 Meet Chantel Prat
                  01:02 Why Input Shapes Brains
                  04:08 The Output Pressure Trap
                  05:52 Exploration Versus Exploitation
                  10:05 Average Brains And Teams
                  15:35 Theory Of Mind Defined
                  22:12 Practicing With AI Feedback
                  24:31 Offloading Thinking To AI
                  29:50 Humans In The Loop
                  35:16 Age And Tech Reactions
                  42:15 Why Curiosity Requires Safety
                  48:15 Personal Codex And AI
                  50:54 Becoming More Yourself
                  54:34 The Debrief

                  📜 Read the transcript for this episode: why-fear-kills-curiosity-and-what-that-means-for-ai-with-chantel-prat-cognitive-neuroscientist/transcript

                  For more prompts, tips, and AI tools. Check out our website: https://www.beyondtheprompt.ai/ or follow Jeremy or Henrik on Linkedin:

                  Henrik: https://www.linkedin.com/in/werdelin
                  Jeremy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremyutley

                  Show edited by Emma Cecilie Jensen.

                  1 hr 2 min

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