Shama Hyder

Time100 Creator. Exited Founder. Serial Entrepreneur. Keynote Speaker. Bestselling Author. Applied AI Evangelist at Wispr Flow.

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93 percent of Canadian business leaders told KPMG their company uses AI.

Two percent said they were seeing a return.

Two.

Make a task faster without changing the job around it, and the saved minutes just disappear into the day.

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Wharton gave high schoolers a GPT-4 math tutor. Practice scores jumped 48 percent.

Take it away and they did 17 percent worse on the exam than kids who never had it.

The version that gave hints instead of answers did no damage.

Same model. Build the one that makes people think.

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The C-suite gets enterprise licenses.
The frontline gets a policy memo.

It feels prudent. It's gold hoarding.

Your people are already buying intelligence on the side.

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My Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon entry: Trippie 🚗🤖 An AI agent/toy robot that finds sidewalk hazards and files reports to Fix It Plano @cityofplanotx. ~120K injurious falls on U.S. streets and sidewalks in one year; it could help save Plano up to $7M a year. Built with Muse Spark Open. https://t.co/8jbtE4lZaw @cerebral_valley @MetaforDevs

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I let my business school students use AI on their midterm.

The real skill they're learning is knowing when to reach for AI and when to wrestle with the problem first.

I call it friction maxxing, and they're on board.

Wrestle first.

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The CEO of Tommy Bahama told me one of the biggest shifts he's seen in 25 years is mothers and daughters shopping together.

No dashboard flagged it. He saw it standing in his own stores.

AI is the accelerant. Human behavior is the signal.

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Much of office work is bureaucracy we invented to manage other bureaucracy.

Hand that layer to AI and you find out what's actually left of the job.

For some roles, plenty. For others, less than people would like to admit.

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Heartbroken. Austin lost two great entrepreneurs, Joshua Baer and now Adam Robinson. Both were builders who opened doors for so many founders, and friends to so many of us. Sending love to their families and everyone who knew them.

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@vgr Full piece: https://t.co/6Q23bVvVlQ

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Here's my response to @vgr's Cognitive Mercantilism. I think he's two-thirds right. Intelligence was never gold, and hoarding AI access is modern mercantilism. But it isn't groceries either. You can stop farming and still eat. Stop thinking and you lose the taste for it.

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AI isn't making us dumber. We're volunteering for it. MIT found 83 percent of the ChatGPT group couldn't quote one sentence of the essay they'd just written. That isn't a tool problem. It's cognitive offloading with a monthly fee. Think first. Then open the chatbot.

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Aug 26: Instinct launches an invite-only agent that texts you.
Oct 28: ChatGPT ships the same thing in a US Pro beta.

Two months from startup proof to platform feature.

If your edge is the interface, you're on that clock now.

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AI is an accelerant and an amplifier. Automate a team that isn't thinking and you get a very efficient team that isn't thinking. Fix the thinking first.

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@meetingstoday Forecasting a room is signal reading in its purest form. Event teams do it every week, and most executives I work with are still learning it.

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@micenet Smart. Paying local leaders to bring conferences home is reading the Incentives signal: who values what you have right now.

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@emollick Congrats, Ethan! I'm deep in my own manuscript for Simon Acumen right now, so I know how many hours sit behind that list.

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@lennysan @OpenAI @AnthropicAI Look how many of these are events, comms and community. When AI can make anyone's product look competent, the humans in the room are a big part of what's left to compete on.

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@lennysan @thenanyu That's how you hear a customer signal. In 2007 every business owner I met asked what to do with Facebook, and that question became Zen Media.