639: How To Become Irreplaceable In The Age Of AI with Jeff Burningham
Achieve Your Goals with Hal Elrod
Hal Elrod
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🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
AI is evolving faster than most of us can comprehend. And for many people, it's creating a very real fear about the future. If machines can outthink us and eventually outwork us, what does that mean for our careers, our purpose, and even our identity?
Perhaps an even better question is: what does it mean to be human in the age of AI?
Today, I'm joined by Jeff Burningham. Jeff is an entrepreneur, investor, and author who has built more than a dozen companies valued at over a billion dollars and recently released his powerful new book, The Last Book Written by a Human: Becoming Wise in the Age of AI. Unlike most conversations about AI that focus on productivity, efficiency, or making more money, Jeff explores something much deeper: how AI can actually help humanity reconnect with wisdom, presence, empathy, and the qualities that make us uniquely human.
In our conversation, Jeff explains why AI is not just a technological disruption, but a spiritual challenge and a mirror reflecting humanity back to itself. We talk about fear, optimism, consciousness, emotional regulation, and why wisdom—not intelligence—may become the most valuable human trait moving forward.
If you've felt uncertain or overwhelmed about where humanity is headed, this episode will challenge the way you think about both AI and yourself.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Why AI Forces Us To Reevaluate Humanity
- Why AI Is A Spiritual Challenge For Humanity
- The Human Qualities AI Can Never Replicate
- Jeff Addresses The Fears People Have About AI
- Fear vs. Optimism In The Age Of AI
- Using AI As A Bridge Back To Human Connection
- How To Use AI Wisely And Mindfully
- The Real Challenge Facing Humanity Right Now
- The Choice Is To Focus On Who You Choose To Be
- Simple Questions That Reveal Your Awareness
- What Jeff Hopes Readers Take Away From His Book
- The Conversation About AI Humanity Needs To Have
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast, the show that empowers you to wake up to your full potential and achieve your biggest goals and dreams. |
| 0:09.6 | I am your host, Hal Elrod, and I invite you to join us each week as we share actionable strategies to take your life to the next level, |
| 0:16.6 | as well as interview world-class experts and entrepreneurs who have achieved extraordinary goals |
| 0:21.9 | themselves, and we ask them to give you a peek behind the curtain and teach you exactly what |
| 0:26.3 | you need to do to do the same. Ready? Here we go. |
| 0:33.3 | Here's the question that might stump you. If AI can already out-think you, outright you, and soon outwork you, what exactly is left for you to do? |
| 0:44.7 | I know that might seem harsh, but my guest today has a meaningful answer to that question. |
| 0:48.5 | Jeff Burningham is the author of the new book, The Last Book Written by a Human. |
| 0:53.7 | That's the title and it might actually be true, |
| 0:56.1 | becoming wise in the age of AI. Jeff has built over a dozen companies valued it over a billion |
| 1:01.3 | dollars. He ran for governor of Utah. And after all that, he sat in a classroom one afternoon, |
| 1:07.3 | closed his eyes to picture what he wanted most from life and he saw absolutely nothing. |
| 1:12.6 | No dream, no vision, and he says that emptiness was the most important moment of his life. |
| 1:19.6 | Now, his new book is the only book on AI that I have encountered that does not tell you how to use AI to make more money. |
| 1:29.1 | It answers something far more important. What does it mean to be human in the rapidly evolving age of AI? Stay with us |
| 1:35.4 | because at the end of this conversation, you will understand why your fear of AI might be the most |
| 1:41.2 | human thing about you, why wisdom is the one thing a machine can never replicate, |
| 1:45.3 | and what it actually means to become irreplaceable. It is my great pleasure to bring you this |
| 1:50.8 | conversation with my new friend, Jeff Burningham. |
| 1:59.0 | Jeff, my new friend, Birmingham. It is so good to be with you, brother. How, my new friend Burningham. |
| 2:00.9 | It is so good to be with you, brother. |
| 2:02.0 | How, my new friend Elrod, right back at you. |
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