Our guest this week, for our 200th episode, is a digital strategist, author, and purpose-driven entrepreneur. After spending a decade at Google, Meg Smith co-founded Cloverbase, a training company focused on AI literacy and tech enablement based in New Zealand.
Meg's journey with AI began, like many of ours, with a genuine fear about what these powerful tools might mean for her career. While on maternity leave in November 2022, she had her first encounter with ChatGPT, which sparked concerns about whether she would be relevant in the workplace anymore. Fast forward to today, and Meg has transformed that fear into expertise, helping others navigate the rapidly evolving AI landscape.
In this episode, Meg shares specific prompting techniques to get better results from AI tools, why daily practice matters, and how organisations can implement AI safely through what she calls a combined \"top-down and bottoms-up\" approach. She also brings some great insights on balancing the risks and benefits of these powerful technologies.
We particularly loved Meg's take on the human skills that will remain valuable as AI evolves - especially conversation, critical thinking, and storytelling. Her concept of \"triangulation\" for verifying AI outputs is super practical too.
We were drawn to Meg's down-to-earth, thoughtful approach to AI adoption that acknowledges the real fears many people have while offering practical pathways forward. Her focus on making AI accessible through \"just in time learning\" rather than trying to know everything is such a no-brainer approach for busy people.
Enjoy this conversation with the practical and insightful Meg Smith.
Useful links
AKO - How to Become AI Enabled free course
Superhuman AI Newsletter (daily AI newsletter Meg recommends)
Microsoft AI Fundamentals (this is a really great basic course)
Google AI Essentials (this too is an excellent free course)
HiTech Hippies (Meg's sustainability blog)
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