This is the Read to Lead podcast, episode 548.

Hi, I'm Skip Pritchard, author of The Book of Mistakes,

nine secrets to creating a successful future.

Whatever you do, don't make the mistake of missing an episode of this.

It's the Read to Lead podcast with my friend Jeff Brown.

AI isn't merely a catalyst for economic productivity, but a means to elevate the human spirit

envisioning a future where technology amplifies our most human qualities.

AI grants us the space, time, and mental freedom to explore the most critical questions of our existence.

Hey there, I'm Jeff, and this is the Read to Lead podcast.

It's the podcast. It's dedicated to your personal and professional growth.

Of course, we discuss a number of different topics here on the show, from leadership to productivity,

business, marketing, career, personal and professional development, sales, marketing,

did I say marketing, entrepreneurship, and plenty more. And recently, more and more, the topic of AI.

In a moment, we're going to be joined by Pascal Borne.

He's author of a book called Irreplaceable,

The Art of Standing Out in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.

I'll be asking Pascal to share about why he is critical of a lot of the hype surrounding AI and some of the more common myths associated with the technology.

His thoughts on how AI will affect the future of work and based on what I've read in his book, I think you'll be surprised there.

Plus, we'll talk about the need to learn the increasingly valuable human skills of genuine creativity, critical thinking, and social authenticity, and much, much more.

Speaking of AI, in the read-to-lead community online, we'll be meeting on Thursday of this week to talk about a couple of tools that I use and how I use them, in fact, some

specific use cases for two tools in particular. Those tools are perplexity and Google's

notebook LM. If AI and or the use of those kinds of tools holds interest for you, you want to be

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