Ep 143 AI: AI Isn't a Tool Problem. It's a Culture Problem.

About this episode

Stephen discusses how the real issue with AI in organizations is cultural rather than technical.

Four years into running CRZY, Stephen has watched AI go from an interesting experiment to an organizational crisis that almost nobody is naming correctly. The problem isn't which model you're using. It's not your stack, your workflow, or whether you've got the right prompts. The problem is culture — and most leaders are treating it like a hardware upgrade. In this episode, Stephen breaks down the most urgent shifts he's seeing inside teams and companies right now: why being "output drunk" is ...

People in this episode

Host: Stephen Gates

Topics covered

• AI
• organizational culture
• leadership
• team dynamics
• output focus

Keywords

• AI
• culture problem
• organizational crisis
• leadership
• output drunk

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CRZY

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