#223: AI Answers - AI Washing, Flatter Org Charts, Advice for Students, Agent Security & the AI Writing Gap

**Paul Roetzer** (0:00)
Six months ago, these tools were not where they are today. And like putting a standard AI assistant in place that people could talk to and build some documents with and things, the risk surface area for that was relatively low. We're now entering a phase where agents are becoming very real. They have autonomy in select areas.
Reliability is still a question mark. Welcome to AI Answers, a special Q&A series from The Artificial Intelligence Show. I'm Paul Roetzer, Founder and CEO of SmarterX and Marketing AI Institute. Every time we host our live virtual events and online classes, we get dozens of great questions from business leaders and practitioners who are navigating this fast moving world of AI. But we never have enough time to get to all of them. So we created the AI Answers series to address more of these questions and share real time insights into the topics and challenges professionals like you are facing. Whether you're just starting your AI journey or already putting it to work in your organization, these are the practical insights, use cases, and strategies you need to grow smarter. Let's explore AI together.
Welcome to Episode 223 of The Artificial Intelligence Show. I'm your host, Paul Roetzer, along with my co-host, Cathy McPhillips. Welcome back to the show, Cathy.

**Cathy McPhillips** (1:24)
Thank you. It's been a little while.

**Paul Roetzer** (1:26)
It has been a little while. So if you're newer to The Artificial Intelligence Show, we have our weekly episode that comes out on Tuesdays. That's with me and Mike. Then once or twice a month, Cathy and I team up for what we call our AI Answers series. This is the 20th episode in that series. These are based on actual questions from attendees of our Intro to AI and Scaling AI classes, as well as some of our virtual summits and events that we run.
Today's episode is a curated list of questions from our May 13th and June 18th classes for Intro to AI. Does that sound right, Cathy? Because we had to skip a Scaling AI in there. So, Intro to AI we have done 59 times. We started teaching that class every month live in 2021, in fall of 2021, pre-Chat GPT.
So we have literally fielded thousands of questions. And one of the cool things for us is to see how the questions evolve over time and the kinds of things that people are interested in. It gives us a really good pulse into what's going on. So hopefully today's episode not only answers some of the questions you may share, but it gives you insight into what other people are thinking about right now and the kinds of things that they're asking us when they attend our classes.

**Cathy McPhillips** (2:49)
It was interesting when I was putting, because we use AI to help us curate the questions, get them in a sequence so they flow.
And is Paul going to answer this question in question two? So I want to ask it as question three. So there's a whole process that Claire and I go through. And it actually said, are you sure these are from your intro class, not your scaling class?

**Paul Roetzer** (3:09)
They're getting more advanced?

**Cathy McPhillips** (3:10)
They are getting more advanced.

**Paul Roetzer** (3:11)
I believe that. I felt that when we were doing those, because we take questions live also.
And they are definitely just getting more advanced. It's starting, fewer people, I would say, are at the very beginning stage of their journey, where they're truly just trying to understand, what is it? What does it do? They're now getting deeper into what are the implications to me, to my business, to my career, things like that. What's the impact on the environment?
A lot of these people probably listen to the podcast regularly, and so they have just much more advanced questions, which is cool. This episode is brought to us by AI for Business Bootcamp. This is a new event that we are running, so we spent a lot of time on the podcast talking about what's possible with AI. The AI for Business Bootcamp is where we will help put those ideas into practice. You can join me and Mike Kaput, my regular podcast co-host and our Chief Content Officer, on July 16th in Columbus, Ohio, for an intensive one-day workshop that's designed to help you move beyond experimentation and start applying AI across your organization. The day starts with a state of AI for Business keynote that I will give. That's then followed by two hands-on workshops. Mike leads an AI for Productivity workshop that's focused on helping you transform how you work. I will then lead an AI for Innovation workshop, where we'll explore practical frameworks for identifying new growth opportunities and competitive advantages. We've also built in plenty of time to connect with other business leaders who are navigating many of the same challenges. Attendance is limited to only 180 people, so get in early, get those tickets going now. AI Mastery members for AI Academy gets special pricing. You can go to smarterx.ai/events, and you can actually use promo code pod100 to take $100 off. Again, a one-day event, you're going to learn a ton, you're going to build things, you're going to come away ready to apply AI the next day, and think bigger picture about innovation. So smarterx.ai/events, use pod100. Again, if you're an AI Mastery member, you get an additional savings on that event. All right, Cathy, if I missed anything about today or the AI for Business Bootcamp, I'm going to turn it over to you and walk us through how this all works.