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How might AI enhance your creative process? Rather than “replacing” you at work, how might it become your “partner” –today and in the future?

Workplace futurist, bestselling author and speaker Marti Konstant knows numerous ways.

Marti, whose background includes her work as an artist, designer and marketer, is the author of the book “Activate Your Agile Career: How Responding to Change Will Inspire Your Life’s Work“. With her keynotes and workshops, she trains companies and individuals to increase their relevance, rather than stagnate, in a changing workplace.

And one of her tools, in teaching “career agility”, is the use of artificial intelligence–as a catalyst for new ideas.

For creatives, such as designers, Marti says, AI can be a “thought partner”, sparking new ideas. Then, artists, educators, authors and other creative professionals can use their talents to bring their new, AI-enhanced concepts to life.

Marti has coined the term “AI-gility” to describe the ability to put artificial intelligence to work to enhance, rather than replace, creative skills. Her work focuses on being “the human at the center of the loop” while using AI as an implement.

Marti talked about her background, explained some of the ways artificial intelligence can bolster the creative process for artists and educators, and offered a look at some of her favorite resources.

On this edition of Over Coffee® we cover:

• What first inspired Marti to become an artist;

• The career path which took her from being a designer and marketer to her work in career agility as a workplace futurist;

• How she first encountered artificial intelligence in her work;

• Guidelines, for anyone who’d like to start using AI in their career;

• An exercise which shows how artificial intelligence can become a “thought partner” in teaching;

• A technique that could help avoid “scraping” when using AI;

• Some of Marti’s favorite AI resources for creatives;

• How one such resource might help with personal branding for creative work;

• One experience Marti had, introducing a novelist to practical AI for her creative process;

• Future skills creatives will need, in making AI their “thought partner”, now and in future projects;

• Some of Marti’s personal favorite ways to use AI to enhance her work and well-being;