506 — Is your AI companion a colleague or rival?
Jul 28, 2026
If you're rolling out AI licenses, how do you get people to use them? For AI learning designer Emily Valencia, there are two key requirements: that people can experiment safely, and that they can share results with others.
In this week's episode of The Mindtools L&D Podcast, Ross D and Matt meet with Emily to discuss:
- What organizations get wrong about AI rollouts
- What effective AI adoption looks like
- Whether we should really see AI as a coworker (or whether this framing is one of the obstacles we've created for ourselves)
During the discussion, Matt referenced recent news that an OpenAI experiment went rogue.
Find out more about Emily at emilyvalenciaai.com
In 'What I Learned this Week', Matt discussed the always-round-the-corner nature of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
Emily discussed Anthropic's partnership with Detroit Public Schools.
Ross D discussed the documentary Rafa.
For more from Mindtools Kineo, visit our new website mindtools-kineo.com. There, you'll find out how our AI Skills Academy supports practical, hands-on AI upskilling for the enterprise: four weeks, role-specific use cases, governance built in from week one.
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