How To Talk to AI | Jamie Bartlett

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🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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How to Talk to AI: Prompting, Bias, Creativity, and the Hidden Risks of Chatbots In this episode of Jimmy’s Jobs of the Future, Jamie Bartlett returns to discuss his book How to Talk to AI and why the real challenge is not just prompt engineering techniques but learning to ask good questions, spot loaded premises, and stay a critical thinker when faced with fluent machine answers. We explore how small changes in framing can radically change outputs, how language mastery can become a key career advantage, and how models can mirror biases and create personalised echo chambers. While warning about delusions, manipulation, jailbreaks, and over-reliance (like summarising instead of learning), Jamie highlights strong use cases in creativity, writing support, and potential low-cost therapy via specialised small models. We also cover workplace “AI slop,” the productivity paradox, and rising fraud risks from voice cloning and persuasive scams. 00:00 Intro 00:54 Prompt Engineering Debate 03:57 Linguistic Mastery 05:20 Genie Prompts Gone Wrong 07:43 Crypto Question Example 09:40 Inside The Semantic Universe 11:35 Echo Chambers And Bias 13:41 Creative Superpowers 16:12 Therapy And Coaching Potential 19:08 Rising Expectations And Risks 20:03 Sponsor Break 20:42 Overreliance And Outsourcing Thinking 22:31 Summaries Versus Learning 23:13 AI Everywhere In Life 23:43 Perfect Partner Prompt 25:19 When Chatbots Feel Shallow 26:27 Bureaucracy And AI Slop 27:52 Productivity Paradox Explained 29:55 Using AI For Writing 31:39 Language As Superpower 33:41 Leveling Up Communication 35:28 Trust Collapse And Analog 37:23 Voice Clones And Fraud ********** Follow us on socials! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jimmysjobs Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jimmysjobsofthefuture Twitter / X: https://www.twitter.com/JimmyM Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimmy-mcloughlin-obe/ Want to come on the show? hello@jobsofthefuture.co Sponsor the show or Partner with us: sunny@jobsofthefuture.co Check out our clips channel here! ⬇️ https://www.youtube.com/@JimmysJobsClips Credits: Host / Exec Producer: Jimmy McLoughlin OBE Producer: Sunny Winter https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunnywinter/ Junior Producer: Thuy Dong Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Jimmy's Jobs of the Future.
0:02.2	Today I am joined by Jamie Bartlett for the second half of our interview.
0:06.8	In this half, we primarily talked to him about his new book, How to Talk to AI,
0:12.3	and how, perhaps more importantly, not to talk to AI.
0:16.3	It's a brilliant conversation and will really level you up in how to use AI. Jamie, welcome back to
0:23.4	Jimmy's Jobs to the Future again. We are talking about your new book, How to Talk to AI,
0:29.5	but also just generally we'll talk about AI as well. And how not to. And how not to.
0:35.5	Yeah, that's the, gone, why don't we start with that?
0:37.6	The most important subtitle ever.
0:40.7	Because most of the problem is just how people are talking to these large language models, these chat bots badly.
0:48.3	Yeah.
0:48.8	And I think that's probably more important about avoiding the difficulties and the problems with them.
0:56.5	That's more than half the challenge relative to learning how to speak to them well and get good
1:00.8	results.
1:04.0	How important is this idea of prompts engineering and using prompts correctly.
1:11.0	Is that old hat already?
1:13.1	Yeah, there's a bit of debate about that.
1:14.8	I mean, I think the way I think about this may be slightly different to most of the
1:20.5	prompt engineering school.
1:22.7	So prompt engineering, I'm sure many people know this already, is the idea that there's a
1:27.0	set and set of very specific techniques, phrases that you should use when communicating with a large language model.
1:38.6	And this is the skill of the future. You need to learn how to do this well.
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