The more AI takes on, the more we yield our judgment, discernment, and critical thinking to it. Those skills are atrophying. But the capacity AI creates is exactly what we need to rebuild them.Nate Boaz recently published an article called “From Muscle to Mind to Meaning” that really resonated with me. His argument is one …
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There’s a version of AI adoption that sounds impressive in a boardroom and falls completely apart the moment a real customer needs something. I ran into both versions of it recently, within a few weeks of each other, and the contrast was jarring enough that it’s been sitting in the back of my mind ever …
The dramatic impact of AI on instructional design, student-teacher ratios, classroom time, and education policy.The question “Will AI replace teachers?” has been asked so many times it’s lost its edge.The answer is no. But not “no” in the way you’d think.A flat “no” answer obscures a significant truth: AI is introducing a dramatic shift in …
People in our INGRAIN AI community have been asking about OpenClaw (formerly ClawdBot). What it is. Whether it’s real. What it means.I’ve been watching it from a safe distance for the past couple of weeks and honestly… It’s both more practical and more terrifying than you probably imagined.Let me walk you through what happened, because …
How every company is inadvertantly setting its workforce up for displacementDario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, recently published “The Adolescence of Technology,” a sweeping essay about the risks humanity faces as artificial intelligence becomes more powerful. He describes a future where AI could displace half of entry-level white-collar jobs within five years. Amodei isn’t the only AI …
The Great DisconnectYou read the reports. You see the headlines. According to the major research firms, AI adoption is happening everywhere. We are told that usage is now mainstream. Reports from Wharton and McKinsey claim that 82% of leaders use Generative AI weekly.[1] They tell us that nearly nine out of ten respondents say their …
Don’t believe everything you hear when it comes to AI.Words matter, and the phrase I keep hearing over and over is “you need a human-in-the-loop” when adopting or implementing Artificial Intelligence initiatives in your organization.”Human in the Loop” is a critical choice, but it’s the wrong focus.Right now, executives are struggling with AI strategy and …
Chris Penn’s LinkedIn post stopped me cold. It opened my eyes to something I’d suspected, but never really tested. Chris did.He’d run a simple experiment with Google Gemini’s Chrome integration. He asked it to record all the reactions on a LinkedIn post from Marcus Sheridan. The AI browser, of course, dutifully obliged. Then he asked …
The difference between businesses that thrive and those that struggle isn’t as much about the models they use as it is about how they structure AI prompts.Why Scalable Prompts Change EverythingMost people are still typing rambling paragraphs into ChatGPT and wondering why the output sounds like AI. This problem is only going to get worse …
Some people are in for a rude awakening with DeepSeek… I recently read a post from someone I respect in the AI industry—someone who understands the risks of deploying AI in enterprise environments. This person had correctly advised that the web-based version of DeepSeek R1 was dangerous, but then they said something that floored me: “I wouldn’t …