Hello and welcome back to Franklin Covey's on Leadership Podcast series.

My name is Scott Miller and I serve as your host and moderator each week.

Today, our guest is going to talk about all things technology, specifically AI, artificial

intelligence and how it's sweeping the landscape of organizations, industries worldwide and

how your organization could, in fact, become an AI first company.

Our guest today is a renowned investor in the author of the recently released book, The

AI First Company, How to Compete and Win with Artificial Intelligence.

Ash Fontana, welcome to on Leadership.

Thank you very much for having me.

Hey, thanks for joining us.

It's not every day or in fact, it's never that we actually have had someone on to talk

about the role that technology plays in advancing our cultures, our competitive advantage.

It is time that we did that and today we've chosen to dedicate that topic to you because

you are one of the nations, one of the world's foremost thought leaders as it relates to

creating an artificial intelligence culture, a competitive advantage.

And so what I'm going to ask you to do today after we talk a little bit about your history

is sort of give us a primer in what is AI and why should everyone care.

Most of us just know that it's coming and quote, going to take our jobs, which of course

is an absurd statement.

But we'll talk about the impact it's going to have on careers, education and how we choose

to train our children and those after us as well.

Ash, before we get into the topic of AI, take a minute or two and allow our viewers and

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