#236: AI Answers - No Time for AI, AI Budgets, Vendor Terms & Data Risk, AI Disclosure & Vanishing Entry Level Roles

**Paul Roetzer** (0:00)
Where does management come from? What do managers do in the future if we don't train entry-level employees? So if we stop hiring as many entry-level staff, then we decimate the future managers and leaders of the company.
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 236 of The Artificial Intelligence Show. I'm your host, Paul Roetzer, along with my co-host, Cathy McPhillips. Welcome, Cathy.

**Cathy McPhillips** (1:12)
Thank you.

**Paul Roetzer** (1:14)
Cathy is our Chief Marketing Officer at SmarterX. If you are a regular listener to the podcast, you have heard Cathy many times before. So Cathy is not taking Mike's job. Mike and I are still doing the weekly, every Tuesday, and Mike is the host of the AI Transformation Series that we've started. We've done three of those now.
Then Cathy and I do these special editions of what we call the AI Answers episodes. So these episodes are based on questions that we receive during our monthly Intro to AI and Scaling AI classes, as well as some questions that we get from virtual events. So these are all community-driven questions, and we just go through. There's usually, I don't know, Cathy, do we have 15, 12 to 15 of these things?

**Cathy McPhillips** (1:57)
Yes, we do.

**Paul Roetzer** (1:58)
Cathy prepares a brief that I look at as we start recording. It's a wonderful brief, but I just kind of dive in and we go. So yeah, so today's 15 questions. They are based on the last two Intro to AI and Scaling AI classes that we did. The Intro to AI was July 29th, and Scaling AI was July 9th. So these are both from late July.
And yeah, so the interesting thing, and we'll kind of get into this as we go through these questions is the Intro class I have been teaching since fall of 2021 So we've had north of 60,000 people register for that series. And back in 2021, pre-Chat GPT, you could imagine we were getting some very foundational questions, just very basic, trying to understand what the technology was, and where it was going, and how to figure out use cases. And the Intro questions have evolved. They have become much more advanced. So even the people that are attending the Intro class generally have really, really good questions.
And then the Scaling AI we have now done for probably going on two years, Cathy, I would say. We've been teaching that one.

**Cathy McPhillips** (3:10)
Just about.

**Paul Roetzer** (3:11)
Yeah, we've done 18 of those. And so that's probably had 10 to 12,000 people, I would guess, go through that series.
And that one teaches our five-step framework for Scaling AI in an organization. So those questions tend to be more organizationally driven, team department driven. They're thinking bigger picture about how to move beyond just pilot projects and actually scale it in the organization. So if you've never had a chance to attend either of those, we do continue to teach them. You can go look in the show notes and there's links to sign up for the next ones. I think we have one coming up at the end of September maybe. Does that sound right, Cathy?

**Cathy McPhillips** (3:45)
We have September 10th is our next Scaling AI, and September 30th is our next Intro to AI. Okay.

**Paul Roetzer** (3:53)
So apparently, I'm teaching a class next week. All right.
So September, you can join us for both of these if you'd like. Actually, no.

**Cathy McPhillips** (4:01)
It's on Friday, actually. It's on the 11th because you're not going to be in town on the 10th.

**Paul Roetzer** (4:04)
We had to shift that date. Yes, we did. All right.
So today's episode is brought to us by Marketing AI Month. This is a brand new thing, and I am going to let Cathy tea this up for us, and then we will get into the Q&A.

**Cathy McPhillips** (4:20)
Also, do you think you ever need to say that people are worried I'm going to take Mike's job?