In honor of XR Women, hosting their “Thrive in 2025” Symposium this upcoming weekend, please enjoy this reposting of one of our top episodes of 2024!

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“I think we, as human beings, are at our best when we are using AI as a thought partner,” says workplace futurist and bestselling author Marti Konstant.

Her advice for making artificial intelligence your “thought partner”, as she explores in her book, “Activate Your Agile Career: How Responding to Change Will Inspire Your Life’s Work“? Start at the level of your profession.

And from there, you can customize the ways AI can work, to enhance, rather than replace, your own creative talents.

In this interview from September 2024, we discuss the ways Marti’s term “AI-gility” allows users to put artificial intelligence to work to spark new ideas.

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

On this edition of Over Coffee® we cover:

• What first inspired Marti to become an artist;

• The career path which took her 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;