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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