How Entrepreneurs Are Using AI Without Losing Their Edge

How Entrepreneurs Are Using AI Without Losing Their Edge

From Inside Strategic Coach: Connecting Entrepreneurs With What Really Matters by Dan Sullivan and Shannon Waller

January 13, 2026 · 18 min

About this episode

Dan Sullivan and Shannon Waller discuss the relationship between AI and human intelligence in entrepreneurship.

Predictions have been made over the years, especially with the emergence of AI, that computers will be more intelligent than human beings. But humanity is always infinitely greater than anything that humans create. Business coaches Dan Sullivan and Shannon Waller discuss why computer intelligence can never compete with humanity’s intelligence. Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this episode: Why a person’s intelligence doesn’t include only their own. What “humanity” really means. How successful entrepreneurs are using—and not using—AI. How AI is lessening the importance of experts. Show Notes: Humans communicate in many undetectable and immeasurable ways. A single telephone has no value whatsoever. With the addition of every new technology that allows human beings to interact with one another, the combined intelligence of the planet multiplies. A new technological capability could never be greater than the total amount of thinking that all humans do. You can’t be inside of a system and understand that system. Computers are just a subset of human intelligence. Unlike humans, machines can be consistent and constant in their use of intelligence. Humanity is everything that humans…

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Hosts: Dan Sullivan, Shannon Waller

Topics covered

  • AI
  • entrepreneurship
  • human intelligence
  • technology
  • business coaching

Keywords

  • humanity
  • successful entrepreneurs
  • AI usage
  • importance of experts
  • communication

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