Moving Away From Replacement Fear To Conversational Agency

Episode 2 explores how your body can act as an intuitive guide to AI literacy, showing how physical awareness and emotional signals can help you feel calmer, clearer, and more confident as you learn to work with AI.

Transcript

Welcome back.

Yesterday,

We grounded our bodies.

Today,

Our objective is to redefine our relationship with AI,

Moving away from replacement fear to conversational agency.

If you're near your computer or device,

Take a moment to prepare your interface.

Just having a clean screen ready for our conceptual takeaway.

The core idea is this.

Generative AI is a partner,

Not a replacement.

We're aiming for augmented intelligence,

Using the tool to enhance your own thinking.

Generative AI is fundamentally different from a search engine.

A search engine is for retrieval.

Gen AI is a creation tool.

You can think of it as a sophisticated texting partner or a co-writer.

The message you send is a prompt and its reply is an output or a generation.

We are asking it to help us create reality,

Not just confirm it.

Let's use the body to embody the sense of partnership through a practice called inclusiveness.

Take a long grounding exhale,

Settling into your seat and recovering your dignified posture.

Gently expand your awareness,

Your personal space out in all directions.

Let that feeling of space include the area around you.

This is an act of inclusiveness.

Imagine you are setting the tone for a collaborative meeting.

Feel yourself holding the room with a quality of being that is calm,

Open and ready to partner.

This open feeling is the leadership presence from which you meet your partner,

AI.

Breathe into this open,

Inclusive feeling.

Our key takeaway is that you relate to AI as a creative partner.

Your role is to clearly instruct this partner.

For today's gentle invitation,

Think of a simple non-critical task like brainstorming a meal plan or creative project.

Write down one question you could ask AI to help you create something.

Notice the feeling of approaching it as a collaborative act.

Tomorrow,

We start crafting those instructions with the first C of prompting,

Clarity.

Thank you for your practice today and see you here tomorrow.

For day three.