
Everyone has access to the same AI tools. A few people get dramatically better results. The difference isn’t the technology; it’s the mental model you bring to it.
AI Empowered explores the psychology of extraordinary human-AI collaboration: the ideas from the book of the same name, taken further. Each episode works a concept from the book, where it came from, how it plays out in practice, and what the latest research and news do to it. Solo episodes run about ten minutes. Interviews with researchers, builders, and leaders go deeper. Hosted by Aaron Douglas.
Latest episodes
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Why AI Training Doesn’t Fix the Actual Problem
Four out of five organizations are running AI training. Three out of five still report an AI skills gap. The training is…
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The Artificial Hivemind: Why Your AI Sounds Like Everyone Else’s
Researchers gave twenty-five different AI models the same prompt — write a metaphor about time — and collected fifty responses from each.…
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The AI Deskilling Trap
This episode takes the deskilling trap from chapter six of the book (“The Collaboration Demands More of Me, Not Less”) and collides…
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New Book on The Psychology of Extraordinary Human-AI Collaboration
Everyone has the same AI tools. A few people get results that look like they’re using something else entirely. The difference has…
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What Changed (and Why It Matters)
The AI Empowered podcast is changing format — fewer abstract frameworks, more grounded stories from fractional marketing work. This episode explains the…
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The Two Conversations About AI That Never Go Anywhere
Two conversations keep showing up in every organization working through AI adoption. The first: an executive stands up and declares “we need…

