Make AI Your Scene Partner, Not Your Assistant

What if the algorithm screening your applicants is designed to reject your best ones?Aden Nepom, president of Art of Change, has spent almost two decades teaching executives to communicate under pressure using tools built from improv. When we got into what AI does to creativity, she landed on a problem she doesn't have a fix for yet.Here's what we go over:Why she thinks LLMs are structurally built to average, and what that's doing to a friend of hers who keeps getting rejected for being an outlierHow telling an AI to "act as" someone is technically an improv game, and why it gets sharper answers than a plain command ever willWhy she refuses to let AI answer her own writing prompts, even though it would be faster, because she doesn't want to outsource her own thinking About Aden NepomAden Nepom has spent nearly two decades teaching executives and teams to communicate under pressure using tools built from improv. She's convinced the real risk of AI isn't job loss. It's letting it think for you before you've noticed you stopped.About Great Mondays Radio→ Think you'd be a great guest on the show? Apply here.→ I've spent two decades helping leaders fix their culture. Learn how I can support your work Great Mondays.→ Want sharp takes on AI and the future of work? Read The Job Sh*t Show on Substack.→ Watch Great Mondays Radio episodes on YouTube.