Ep 757: The 7 Silent Sins of Doing AI Right: How to Spot and Overcome the Invisible AI Work Traps (Start Here Series Vol 20)

Even if you're 'doing AI right' you're probably lying, hurting others and getting dumb. 🤯

Sounds brash, but it's largely the truth. 

Even proper AI use rewards speed, agility and scale. It doesn't emphasize thoughtful conversations, deep learning or thoughtful human conversation. 

We call these the 7 Silent Sins of AI, and chances are you're committing many of them. 

Don't worry. We'll break them down and teach you the basics on how to avoid them.

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Topics Covered in This Episode:

1. The Hidden Costs of Heavy AI Use
2. Sin One: Sycophancy in AI Chatbots
3. How to Fix Sycophancy with Custom Instructions
4. Sin Two: AI Psychosis and Delusional Echo Chambers
5. Sin Three: WAIF and Weaponized Training Data
6. Three Questions to Ask Before Trusting AI Stats
7. Sin Four: Accidental Deskilling of the Brain
8. Sin Five: The Agent Bun Sandwich Hollowing Expertise
9. Sin Six: The Compression Tax on Cognitive Bandwidth
10. Sin Seven: Automation Bias and Blind AI Trust
11. Grieving the Loss of Domain Expertise
12. Daily Habits to Protect Your Thinking

Timestamps:

00:16 The personal cost of heavy AI use

02:35 The seven invisible AI traps overview

04:29 Sin one: sycophancy explained

07:22 Fix sycophancy with blunt custom instructions

08:53 Sin two: AI psychosis and echo chambers

11:48 How to spot AI psychosis in yourself and others

12:39 Sin three: WAIF and tainted training data

17:44 Three questions to vet any AI stat

18:12 Sin four: accidental deskilling

22:57 Sin five: the agent bun sandwich

29:26 Sin six: the compression tax

34:34 Sin seven: automation bias

38:29 Grieving the end of domain expertise

Keywords: 

sycophancy, AI psychosis, WAIF, weaponized authority, accidental deskilling, agent bun sandwich,

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Not sure where to start when it comes to AI? Start with our Start Here Series. You can listen to the first drop -- Episode 691 -- or get free access to our Inner Cricle community and all episodes: StartHereSeries.com 

Also, here's a link to the entire series on a Spotify playlist.