How AI Is Rewiring Your Customers (And Why Most Businesses Aren't Ready)
About this episode
This episode discusses how AI is fundamentally changing customer behavior and decision-making, impacting traditional marketing strategies.
Most businesses still think they're selling to people. They're not. They're selling to an algorithm that's already decided what their customer believes, buys, and trusts. If you don't understand that shift, you're already invisible. This conversation with Mark Schaefer goes straight at the real problem: AI isn't just changing marketing tactics. It's rewiring how humans think, decide, and relate to the world. He breaks down what happens when customers stop researching, stop comparing, and start defaulting to AI for answers. Not just for low-risk decisions, but for where to live, who to trust, and what to buy. The conversation moves from surface-level AI hype into the real consequences: Cognitive offloading, loss of human agency, AI becoming the primary decision-maker, and what that actually means for businesses trying to grow. Because when AI becomes the filter between you and your customer, traditional marketing doesn't just weaken, it becomes irrelevant. At the same time, this isn't a doomsday conversation, it's a recalibration. Brand, trust, and human signals are no longer "nice to have." They are the only leverage left when machines are making recommendations at scale. This…
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