The Shift to Know Thyself: Beth White on Agency in the Age of AI

Everyone's worried AI is coming for their job.Almost nobody's asking what job they'd design for themselves if they could.In this episode of The Shift, we sit down with Beth White, Founder & CEO of MeBeBot — she was building AI-powered employee experience tools nearly eight years before generative AI made this a boardroom conversation — to talk about what it means to know thyself in the age of AI.We get into:Why the AI panic isn't really about AI — it's about identity, agency, and the question nobody's saying out loudThe shift from shadow AI and solo chatbot bubbles to real, team-level AI literacyWhy HR and People leaders have to stop being “victims of systems” — Workday, ADP, and otherwiseAI governance as an act of care, not just compliance — building guardrails the way FMLA built trust“Who wrote the rule?” — the first-principles question that unsticks decades of default processTokens, data centers, and why AI pricing might eventually look like a utility billBecause you can't outsource knowing what you're good at. But you can build the conditions — and the guardrails — for it to matter.Connect with Beth:LinkedInMeBeBot