The Last Advantage: Human Judgment in an AI World Jeff Burningham Interview Episode #DCLXV The Doctor of Digital™ G. Mick Smith, PhD

About this episode

The episode features an interview with Jeff Burningham discussing the importance of human judgment in an AI-driven world.

🎙 Episode Framing (Show Notes Intro) ===================================== Jeff Burningham is an entrepreneur, investor, and national bestselling author operating at the intersection of business, technology, and human potential. He is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Peak Capital Partners, a real estate investment firm managing over $5 billion in assets and employing nearly 1,000 people. He is also the Founding Partner of Element Ventures, a seed-stage fund with investments in companies including Spotify, MetaMask, Podium, Lucid, and Angel Studios. Across his career, Jeff has started, scaled, or invested in more than fifty companies, served on over twenty boards, and was named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for the Mountain West Region. He is the author of #TheLastBookWrittenByAHuman and the host of the Extraordinary Us podcast, where he explores what it means to live, build, and think at a higher level in a rapidly changing world. In this conversation, we explore decision-making under uncertainty, the limits of artificial intelligence, and why human judgment — not just intelligence — may be the defining advantage of the next decade. The Last Book Written by a Human…

People in this episode

Host: G. Mick Smith

Guest: Jeff Burningham

Topics covered

• human judgment
• artificial intelligence
• decision-making
• entrepreneurship
• business strategy

Keywords

• human judgment
• AI
• entrepreneurship
• decision-making
• business
• investing
• technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Peak Capital Partners, Element Ventures, Spotify, MetaMask, Podium, Lucid, Angel Studios

Books & works: #TheLastBookWrittenByAHuman, Extraordinary Us

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