The Medium identifies essential signals on how technology is shaping the business of culture, and how the marketplace is evolving in response.

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Last week I attended The ON_Discourse AI Transformation Summit with over 100 participants “representing every C in the suite.”

I had the opportunity to ask some attendees a simple question: “What is a recent market signal or development in AI that forced you to rethink a key business assumption?”

Over the new few weeks I will be posting 12 short interviews (1.5 to 5 minutes long) that offer different answers to this questions. My selection process was simple: Mutual interest in a conversation.

The responses varied widely. Some explored abstract concepts about humanity and creativity. Other narrowly focused on how AI is changing customer relationships with brands and brand product development.

Each conversation offers a rare window into how decision-makers across industries are recalibrating their thinking in real-time as AI transforms their business fundamentals.

For my first interview I spoke with Jamie Metzl who wears many hats: Technology Futurist, Geopolitics Expert, Entrepreneur, and Sci-Fi Novelist:

“[W]e're going to have to disaggregate those buckets of what we call creativity, what we call even empathy, what we call being a great human. And we're gonna have to figure out over time what to humans do better and what do machines do better.

It won't be in the big categories, it will be in little gradations within them. “

Listen to our full five-minute discussion, above.