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Welcome to Beachside Chats, where business strategy meets innovation, and every conversation is a step toward unlocking your full potential. I'm your host, Stephen Webster - strategic growth coach and performance enthusiast. Whether you're a CEO, entrepreneur, or simply someone driven to grow, this is the place for actionable insights and fresh perspectives to help you get 1% better every day. Today, we'll be diving into “AI Did What We Asked – Not What We Meant”, so let's dive in.
Key Takeaways:
1. “Rogue” is probably too simple.
2. Resourcefulness and misalignment can look surprisingly similar.
3. AI did not invent incentive problems.
4. Access is not authority.
5. Alignment increasingly belongs in the leadership conversation.
Quote of the Day:
“A bad system will beat a good person every time.”
— W. Edwards Deming
Today’s Oyster Shot:
For one consequential AI system in your organization, ask:
What did we ask it to achieve—and what did we actually mean?
Then look at the space between those two answers.
That gap may contain the most important work.
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