ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Everyone has access to the same AI tools. A few people get dramatically better results, and the difference is the mental model they bring to them.
AI Empowered explores the psychology of extraordinary human-AI collaboration, taking the ideas from the book of the same name further. Each episode works a concept from the book: where it came from, how it plays out in practice, and what the latest research and news do to it. Solo episodes run about ten minutes. Interviews with researchers, builders, and leaders go deeper.
Hosted by Aaron Douglas, who trained in organizational psychology and family therapy before a marketing career spanning more than 20 years. He is Principal at Auspicious (auspicious.llc), where he pairs executive marketing leadership with hands-on execution, and the author of AI Empowered: The Psychology of Extraordinary Human-AI Collaboration. Get the book at aiempoweredbook.com.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 21 days
Average audio length:
15 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
22 episodes
since Aug. 4, 2025
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
If your favorite AI model disappeared tomorrow, would you lose a week of convenience, or would you lose your business's memory?
This month Aaron moved off Claude as his primary AI, switched off every scheduled task it ran, and found that some of what his business knew lived only in that one tool's…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
A Harvard AI tutor more than doubled what an active-learning classroom taught. A chatbot handed to high schoolers left them seventeen percent behind kids who never had it. Same class of tool. The difference was what each design made the human do before the answer arrived.
This episode returns to c…
Nine months into an AI rollout, the dashboard says eighty-something percent weekly usage, training completion in the nineties, time-to-first-draft down forty percent. Every number is accurate. Then somebody pulls three client proposals from before and three from after and reads a paragraph from eac…
Four out of five organizations are running AI training. Three out of five still report an AI skills gap. The training is happening; the gap isn't moving. That isn't a quality failure — it's a targeting failure.
This episode works the argument from chapter two of AI Empowered: the three dominant re…
Researchers gave twenty-five different AI models the same prompt — write a metaphor about time — and collected fifty responses from each. Over a thousand generations came back as essentially two ideas. Different companies, different continents, same sentences: one measured pair of models overlapped…
This episode takes the deskilling trap from chapter six of the book ("The Collaboration Demands More of Me, Not Less") and collides it with what the research is saying right now: a Nature news feature on early deskilling evidence across medicine and software engineering, the Lancet colonoscopy stud…
Everyone has the same AI tools. A few people get results that look like they're using something else entirely. The difference has a name now — and a book.
AI Empowered: The Psychology of Extraordinary Human-AI Collaboration is out in paperback and Kindle, and this episode marks what it means for t…
AI Empowered is shifting how episodes get made — and this one explains why. Aaron talks about what's been working, what hasn't, and what the show looks like going forward.
The short version: episodes are moving from abstracted frameworks to grounded stories from Aaron's week-to-week work as a frac…
Two conversations keep showing up in every organization working through AI adoption. The first: an executive stands up and declares "we need to be using AI across the board." Licenses get bought, emails get sent, nothing changes. The second: a respected director quietly routes around every AI initi…
Have you ever noticed that some people dive headfirst into AI while others hang back — and wondered why it feels so personal? In this episode, we reframe AI adoption as a classic Hero’s Journey where every one of us is the protagonist. You’ll meet four very human archetypes — the Pioneer, the Guard…
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Aaron Douglas, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.
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