Will AI turbocharge our output—or erode our standards in the rush to automate? In this episode, strategist Andreas Welsch (ex-SAP, author of The AI Leadership Handbook) joins Corey Noles and Grant Harvey to weigh the promise of higher productivity against the peril of slipping quality. Expect plain-language insights on agentic AI, governance that scales, and the human skills and metrics that reveal whether AI is lifting the bar—or lowering it.Guest: Andreas Welsch LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreasmwelschAI Leadership Handbook: https://www.aileadershiphandbook.com/order What's the BUZZ? Podcast: https://www.intelligence-briefing.com/podcast The AI MEMO Newsletter: https://www.intelligence-briefing.com/newsletterWork with Andreas (AI strategy, workshops, training): https://www.intelligence-briefing.com OWASP Top 10 LLMs: https://owasp.org/www-project-top-10-for-large-language-model-applications/There are no new ideas in AI, only new datasets: https://blog.jxmo.io/p/there-are-no-new-ideas-in-ai-only N8N to start automating your own tasks (not a promo; this is just the best tool for the job): https://n8n.io/ or https://n8n.io/workflows for template workflows to try. The Neuron Newsletter: https://www.theneuron.ai
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Will AI turbocharge our output, or will it erode our standards in a rush to automate? Let's talk about it. All right, welcome humans to episode four of the Neuron Podcast. I'm Corey Knowles, joined as always by our writer, Grant Harvey. Say hi, Grant.
Hi, Grant.
All right. Today's episode will be centered on whether AI will become a massive productivity boost or a race to lower our standards across industries. So we went out and found the right person to talk to on this subject, and that is Andreas Welsh. How are you today, Andreas? Doing well. Thank you so much for having me. Awesome. We're glad to have you here.
Andreas is an internationally recognized AI strategist. He spent more than about two decades turning tech hype into real business results. At SAP, he led the Global AI Center for Excellence and helped weave AI into the software that powers thousands of enterprises right now.
Now, he's the founder of Intelligence Briefing, and Andreas advises Fortune 500 leaders and teaches LinkedIn learning courses on agentic AI and hosts the popular show, What's the Buzz? AI in Business. And if you haven't watched that, go watch it. It's good. He's also the author of the bestselling AI Leadership Handbook that we'll talk about a little later as well.
Yeah, and that's what it looks like.
Yeah, good looking book. Yeah, I like the cover actually. Well, few people have what I would call a clearer view of the true cost and true payoff of AI. So we're thrilled to have you here to help us kind of unpack whether lower model prices will spark a productivity renaissance or a race to the bargain bin.
So I guess I'll kick it off. So Andres, I think that the largest thing that I think people think about when they think about applying AI in business is the idea that it makes you faster or more productive. So when you hear claims that dirt cheap AI will make everyone 10 times faster, what simple tests do you use to see if that's actually realistic or not?
I think there are two. One is who's the person saying it and how long have they worked on AI? That's the first one. We've seen a lot of crypto influencers become AI influencers almost overnight. But I think more and more realistically in business, I would say faster is great, but the question is faster at what? And what does it mean if you're faster? What does it mean in business terms?
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