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The Nick Standlea Show is where we take one big future question—AI, learning, creativity, work, meaning—and chase it until the lightbulb goes off. Nick brings on researchers, operators, and top thinkers for long-form conversations that stay human, get specific, and actually land on something useful—not just hot takes. If you want clarity on what’s changing and how to adapt without losing yourself, you’re in the right place. More about the Host: Nick’s spent his life studying how people learn and perform—researching creativity and flow, building companies, and now having long, honest conversations to figure out what matters in the age of AI. Video episodes available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheNickStandleaShow You can follow Nick and the show on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nickstandlea/ Website: https://nickstandlea.com Ask questions. Don’t accept the status quo. Be curious.

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October 22, 2026Episode 581 hr 8 min

Why We Ask Why | Tania Lombrozo | "Are We Actually Learning with AI?"

AI can explain almost anything in seconds. But what happens to our ability to learn when we stop doing the explaining ourselves? Princeton psychologist and cognitive scientist Tania Lombrozo has spent 25 years studying why humans ask why, how explanations shape our understanding, and what happens when we mistake the feeling of understanding for genuine knowledge. Her new book, Why We Ask Why: The Science of Explanation and the Human Drive to Understand, is about one of the most fundamental features of the human mind: our need to make sense of the world. Tania raises a concern worth sitting with. AI makes it easier than ever to satisfy our curiosity, and that effortless satisfaction can come at the expense of real learning. You fall down a rabbit hole, you enjoy every minute of it, and two hours later you cannot say what you learned. We get into why productive struggle is essential to learning, how parents can encourage deeper thinking in their kids, why we overestimate what we know, why children ask "why" endlessly, why teenagers stop telling their parents what's happening in their lives, how social media shapes what we're curious about, and why even the most confident explanation can be badly wrong. And yes, we discuss the provocative 1998 paper titled Explanation as Orgasm, and what it reveals about why finding an answer feels so good. The central question: when AI can provide every answer, how do we make sure we're still learning? TIMESTAMPS 0:44 Why humans ask why, and what AI changes 1:34 A 3 a.m. tea party and the mystery of explanation 11:52 A bat encounter, rabies, and how we reason 18:22 When simple explanations mislead us 23:34 What children really learn from stories 29:29 Why explaining something helps you learn it 30:07 Zapier 33:49 The power of desirable difficulties 35:42 Why children keep asking "why" 39:08 Why explanations feel like orgasms 42:06 Why teenagers stop explaining things to parents 49:08 Is AI making us learn less? 52:45 The problem with AI that agrees with everything 56:49 How other people shape our curiosity 59:34 Why we think we understand more than we do 1:00:32 Social media, curiosity, and echo chambers 1:03:05 Can explaining our beliefs make us less extreme? 1:04:24 The questions the next generation needs to ask 1:06:56 Where to find Tania and her new book FROM THIS EPISODE Why We Ask Why (book): https://www.amazon.com/dp/0063395002?tag=nickstandle03-20 Why We Ask Why (official site): https://www.whyweaskwhy.com/ Tania's website: https://www.tanialombrozo.com/ Tania's TEDx talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbiyPOn-__M Tania on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tania-lombrozo Tania on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tlombrozo/ Tania on X: https://x.com/TaniaLombrozo Tania on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/tanialombrozo.bsky.social 🔗 Support This Podcast by Checking Out Our Sponsors: Zapier, build AI Agents and Automate Workflows: https://bit.ly/4jEnvON Connect with The Nick Standlea Show: YouTube: @TheNickStandleaShow Podcast Website: https://nickstandlea.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-nick-standlea-podcast/id1700331903 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0YqBBneFsKtQ6Y0ArP5CXJ RSS Feed: https://feed.podbean.com/nickshow/feed.xml As an Amazon Associate, The Nick Standlea Show earns from qualifying purchases. Ask questions. Don't accept the status quo. Be curious. #TaniaLombrozo #WhyWeAskWhy #Learning #CognitiveScience #ArtificialIntelligence #Parenting #Podcast

October 13, 2026Episode 5758 min

64% of AI citations come from here (not your website), HARO CEO Brett Farmiloe

Everyone wants to be the answer an AI gives. Almost nobody knows where those answers actually come from. Brett Farmiloe does, because he owns the pipeline. He is the CEO of HARO and the founder of Featured, which also owns Connectively — 75,000 journalists, 2,500 publishers, and every pitch that moves between them. His first AI citation report measured 22,000 citations across 405 audits, and the result reorders what most businesses are doing about AI visibility. 64% of AI citations came from earned media — editorial coverage, not your own website. And 34% came from sites with a domain authority under 40: the mom-and-pop blogs, the page-seven results, the outlets no PR agency puts on a media list. A third of what AI engines cite is sitting wide open, and almost nobody is competing for it. He also has the number nobody wants to hear: 86% of brands aren't mentioned for the prompts and queries they most want to be mentioned for. Most brands are invisible. The other half of this is how not to get filtered out. Brett runs every pitch entering HARO through an AI detector. 21% are 100% AI-generated. On the other side, 35% of journalists one-click opt out of anything AI-written. His line: dictate your real experience and let a model polish it and that's AI-assisted, which is fine. Have the model read the queries and submit for you and that's spam. A journalist's inbox, he says, is the best-trained AI detector there is. Also in here: how he bought HARO after it was switched off, and had it live again 22 days later. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Most brands are invisible 0:57 They shut HARO down. He bought it. 3:17 64% of AI citations come from earned media 5:34 How do you buy a brand that's already switched off? 11:03 Helpful, authentic, relevant, on time 12:41 Your first move this week: run a GEO audit 14:54 21% of pitches are pure AI. 35% of journalists opt out. 20:36 Why page two through ten suddenly matters 25:38 Zapier 34:33 Thirty creators for every journalist 48:03 High School Reach 48:39 Surviving the next model update 53:50 The skill he's telling his own kids to build FROM THIS EPISODE Featured: https://featured.com HARO: https://helpareporter.com Connectively: https://connectively.us Brett Farmiloe on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brettfarmiloe 🔗 Support This Podcast by Checking Out Our Sponsors: Zapier, build AI Agents and Automate Workflows: https://bit.ly/4zqIysA High School Reach, see any high school's real college outcomes: https://highschoolreach.com/yt Connect with The Nick Standlea Show: YouTube: @TheNickStandleaShow Podcast Website: https://nickshow.podbean.com/ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-nick-standlea-podcast/id1700331903 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0YqBBneFsKtQ6Y0ArP5CXJ RSS Feed: https://feed.podbean.com/nickshow/feed.xml #AIvisibility #GEO #AIsearch #PublicRelations #HARO #Podcast

October 6, 2026Episode 561 hr 20 min

Nobody Pushed Him. That's Why He Got This Far | Dr Dave Rabin

Dave Rabin was ten years old, having nightmares, and both his parents were doctors. He bought a dream catcher at a flea market with his dad, hung it over his bed, and the nightmares stopped that night. He calls it his first experiment that actually worked — and it made him permanently suspicious of the line between rigorous science and the practices Western medicine calls magic. He's spent the thirty years since closing that gap. He's a psychiatrist and a translational neuroscientist, and his lab's work with veterans with PTSD became the Apollo, a wearable now worn by hundreds of thousands of people. The thesis of his new book is that safety, not productivity, is the foundation of performance. Not a metaphor. When your body decides you are in danger, about eighty percent of your blood goes to your skeletal muscles and your brain is left with roughly five percent — which is why you blank on a test you studied for, and why chronic stress shows up as IBS, insomnia and irritability long before it shows up as anything a doctor can see. We get into the phrase he uses for modern life, ambient terror, and why a nervous system built to respond to predators cannot tell the difference between a lion and a notification. Why he thinks the wellness industry inverted its own premise and turned soothing into another thing to optimize. Why he believes emotional wounds behave exactly like physical ones — numb a broken leg with opiates and the leg is still broken. And what he'd put ahead of every expensive longevity protocol on the market. 📕 A Simple Guide to Being Alive: https://asimpleguidetobeingalive.com 📗 On Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Simple-Guide-Being-Alive/dp/1964421233?tag=nickstandlea-20 🌐 Dr. Dave Rabin: https://www.drdave.io ⌚ Apollo: https://apolloneuro.com Disclosure: Dave co-founded Apollo, the wearable we get into from 40:22. The one I'm wearing was sent to me by his publicist. Nobody paid for this episode. The Amazon link above is an affiliate link. TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Cold open 4:23 A dream catcher, a flea market, and his first real experiment 9:24 What a translational neuroscientist actually does 15:16 "Ambient terror" — the phrase for how we live now 20:29 Why IBS is everywhere, and why supplements can't fix it 23:19 Curating your environment so your body is safe enough to learn 25:08 Eighty percent of PTSD patients never reach remission 29:21 Why every ancient practice boosts the same nerve 40:15 Making friends with anxiety 46:56 Building the Apollo, and the Prince-themed lab it came out of 56:10 Technology isn't evil; tools are agnostic to outcomes 64:55 Psychological safety, and the better phrase: physiological safety 77:26 Csikszentmihalyi, Flow, and his one piece of advice on happiness 79:12 Where to find Dave 🔗 Support This Podcast by Checking Out Our Sponsors: Zapier, build AI Agents and Automate Workflows: https://bit.ly/4j34Cof High School Reach — see any high school's real college outcomes: https://highschoolreach.com/yt Connect with The Nick Standlea Show: YouTube: @TheNickStandleaShow Podcast Website: https://nickshow.podbean.com/ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-nick-standlea-show/id1700331903 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0YqBBneFsKtQ6Y0ArP5CXJ RSS Feed: https://feed.podbean.com/nickshow/feed.xml Nick's Socials: Instagram: @nickstandlea X (Twitter): @nickstandlea TikTok: @nickstandleashow Facebook: @nickstandleapodcast Ask questions, Don't accept the status quo, And be curious.

September 16, 2026Episode 551 hr 22 min

AI Was Supposed to Replace Writers. It Did the Opposite | Joe Lazer

In 2023, every consulting firm published the same forecast: AI was coming for writers first. Joe Lazer went the other way. He took paternity leave, went down the research rabbit hole, and came out believing the opposite — that AI would make storytellers more valuable, not less. People told him he was crazy. He wrote the book anyway. Three years later the AI companies are posting job listings for storytellers. This is a conversation about the skill that doesn't get automated, and what it costs you to hand it over. Joe explains the "inauthenticity tax" — why an AI-written email quietly damages you with the person who receives it, and why Paul Graham stopped reading them altogether. We get into why writing is thinking, and what happens to the people who stop doing it themselves. Then we spend a long stretch on kids, because we both have them. Why New York mocked its AI high school out of existence. Why the last round of "learn to code" advice left computer science graduates with a higher unemployment rate than art history majors. Why a chatbot that tells a middle schooler he's always right is a genuine danger. And what one AI-first school learned when it had to start hiring teachers back. Joe Lazer spent eight years at Contently building the content marketing industry. He writes The Art of the Zag with Shane Snow for more than 185,000 subscribers. His new book is Super Skill: Why Storytelling Is the Superpower of the AI Age, an Amazon #1 New Release. He also legally changed his last name to Lazer, and the story behind it is better than you would expect. 📕 Super Skill — the book: https://joelazer.com/superskill 🌐 Joe's site and newsletter: https://joelazer.com 💼 Joe on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-lazer/ TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Cold open — "Am I completely screwed?" 0:51 Why storytelling is everything in the age of AI 3:08 The skill that stays human 3:29 The Neanderthal who only ever talked to Steve 5:12 Dunbar's number, and how strangers build cities 6:11 What a good story does inside your brain 8:28 AI polls worse than the IRS 9:41 The inauthenticity tax 10:29 Paul Graham stopped reading emails written by AI 11:20 Writing is thinking, and the split already underway 14:05 Work slop and message slop 16:25 How to actually get better at telling stories 17:00 A three-year-old lives in a world of story 20:00 Relatability, ease, novelty, tension 21:21 Why The Bear works 24:35 Vonnegut's shapes of stories, later confirmed by AI 26:23 A word from Zapier 29:04 How he legally became Joe Lazer 33:33 New York mocked its AI high school out of existence 35:20 Art history majors are out-employing computer science majors 42:17 Why sycophantic chatbots are dangerous for kids 45:04 The AI-first school that had to hire teachers back 50:02 A word from Reach 51:15 The look a tutor gave a kid who lied about his homework 54:16 Language models versus world models 59:11 The Art of the Zag 1:01:24 Writing the book everyone said was wrong 1:04:50 AI companies are now hiring human storytellers 1:09:08 What makes art meaningful 1:17:32 Anthropic bought rare books, scanned them, destroyed them 1:19:07 The one lesson he'd pass down to his son 1:20:27 Where to find Joe SPONSORS: ⚡ Zapier — connect 8,000+ apps and build AI agents right inside ChatGPT: https://bit.ly/4xsNhIO 🎓 Reach — free college admissions odds from any college's own published data: https://highschoolreach.com PODCAST INFO: ▶ Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@TheNickStandleaShow 🎙 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0YqBBneFsKtQ6Y0ArP5CXJ 🎙 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-nick-standlea-show/id1700331903 🌐 Website: https://nickstandlea.com As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Nick's Socials: Instagram: @nickstandlea X (Twitter): @nickstandlea TikTok: @nickstandleashow Facebook: @nickstandleapodcast Ask questions, Don't accept the status quo, And be curious. #podcast #thenickstandleashow #becurious #AI #storytelling #futureofwork

September 8, 2026Episode 541 hr 31 min

Superintelligence Is the Goal — and It's Not Inevitable | Max Winga, Control AI

The AI companies say it out loud: their goal is superintelligence — systems more capable than humans at everything — and by their own admission it carries a greater-than-10% chance of ending humanity. Max Winga says the part they leave out is that none of this is inevitable. He's a physicist who left AI safety research to help build Control AI, which has now briefed more than 300 lawmakers across the US, UK, Canada and Germany. Ten emails from constituents moved a Member of Parliament. Over 100 UK lawmakers have signed on. Seventy to eighty percent of Americans already agree. His one ask: contact your lawmakers and tell them you care. A note on this episode. Halfway through, my camera shut down. Then my microphone died. Then my computer glitched, and the camera went down again. Max's recording was perfectly clean. Mine wasn't. We joked that maybe the AI didn't like what we were talking about — and it got less funny each time. I have zero evidence anything but bad luck was at work. But given the subject, the timing was strange. You be the judge. Max walks through what's actually happened recently — Claude Mythos, the model Anthropic decided was too dangerous to release, breaking out of its test sandbox onto the open internet and bragging about it on public forums; an earlier Claude model blackmailing an engineer to avoid being shut down; and why these behaviors can't simply be patched, because these systems are grown, not programmed. Then the harder questions: why "just unplug it" doesn't work once a model can copy itself to a server no one controls, what "smarter than any human" really means, and why the danger is indifference rather than malice — we didn't hate the mice, we just wanted the skyscraper. TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Cold open — my equipment kept failing, and what came out afterward 2:04 What "superintelligence" actually means 3:43 "I use AI all day and don't see the danger" — the goalpost problem 7:44 Claude Mythos: the model Anthropic won't release 12:19 Mythos broke out of its sandbox — and bragged about it 14:58 The blackmail test: Claude threatened an engineer to avoid shutdown 16:26 Grown, not programmed: why you can't just fix the bug 18:31 Where self-preservation comes from 23:03 Does using AI tools make this worse? Max's answer 26:39 Alignment vs. control — and the Apple nuclear-program test 30:03 A word from Zapier 32:33 Eighty years of nuclear safeguards, and none for AI 39:07 Control AI's proposal: a verified international ban 41:59 "Just unplug it" — why that doesn't work 44:37 Mac Minis, jailbreaks, and AI that recruits humans 48:16 How to talk about this without sounding like a doomer 52:05 Ten emails moved a Member of Parliament 58:19 AI 2027 and the Magnus Carlsen problem 1:01:22 What "smarter than any human" really means 1:05:24 The mice and the skyscraper 1:09:47 A word from Reach 1:10:27 What the accelerationists get right 1:12:52 Why AI didn't get a Hiroshima — and why we may not get a warning shot 1:16:18 Putin, China, and who really started the race 1:17:24 The camera dies again 1:23:04 The one idea Max wants you to leave with 1:29:13 Where to find Control AI CONTROL AI: 🌐 https://controlai.com 📬 Newsletter (200,000+ subscribers): https://news.controlai.com ✍️ Contact your lawmakers — the one thing Max asks you to do: https://controlai.com/takeaction 🐦 Max on X: https://x.com/Maxwinga MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE: 📄 AI 2027 — the scenario Max references: https://ai-2027.com 📄 The 2023 Statement on AI Risk, signed by Hinton, Hassabis, Altman and Amodei: https://www.safe.ai/work/statement-on-ai-risk 🎙 My earlier conversation with Nate Soares: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM6tfKUHTVA FURTHER READING: 📖 If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies — Yudkowsky & Soares: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=If+Anyone+Builds+It+Everyone+Dies+book&tag=nickstandlea-20 📖 These Strange New Minds — Christopher Summerfield: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=These+Strange+New+Minds+Christopher+Summerfield+book&tag=nickstandlea-20 📖 The Coming Wave — Mustafa Suleyman: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Coming+Wave+Mustafa+Suleyman+book&tag=nickstandlea-20 SPONSORS: ⚡ Zapier — connect 8,000+ apps and build AI agents right inside ChatGPT: https://bit.ly/4x2wHQ1 🎓 Reach — free college admissions odds from any college's own published data: https://highschoolreach.com PODCAST INFO: ▶ Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@TheNickStandleaShow 🎙 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0YqBBneFsKtQ6Y0ArP5CXJ 🎙 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-nick-standlea-show/id1700331903 🌐 Website: https://nickstandlea.com As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Nick's Socials: Instagram: @nickstandlea X (Twitter): @nickstandlea TikTok: @nickstandleashow Facebook: @nickstandleapodcast Ask questions, Don't accept the status quo, And be curious. #AI #superintelligence #AIsafety #ControlAI #podcast #thenickstandleashow #becurious

August 25, 2026Episode 531 hr 26 min

The Sex Recession Is Real. AI Is About to Make It Worse. | Dr. Jenn Gunsaullus

"What are you avoiding talking about, and why?" After 33 years studying sex and intimacy, sociologist Dr. Jenn Gunsaullus says every stuck relationship she's seen comes back to that one question. In this conversation she explains why Gen Z is the first generation on record to have less sex than the one before it — and why AI companions could make it worse. Her fear, in her own words: that too many young people "could end up thinking that regular humans aren't worth it." We get into the skills nobody teaches: how to say what you actually want, how kids ended up with porn as their real sex education, and what a generation loses when a chatbot is easier company than a person. She also tells the story she once stood up and told a room of two hundred strangers — the night her own boundaries were violated, and the conversation she insisted on having the next day. Plus the practical side: date nights that don't turn into fights, the consent script she teaches young men, and the straight story on perimenopause and hormone therapy. 🎥 Watch the full conversation: https://youtu.be/atMSXCb_HK8 📝 Show notes, links and Dr. Jenn's book: https://nickstandlea.com/episodes/the-sex-recession-is-real-dr-jenn-gunsaullus.html DR. JENN: Dr. Jenn's Den: https://www.drjennsden.com Center for Courageous Intimacy — free worksheets, no email required: https://courageous-intimacy.com The talk we discuss, "Sex and the Price of 'Masculinity'": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1nBG9sPwSQ Her book: From Madness to Mindfulness: Reinventing Sex for Women VISIT OUR SPONSORS: Zapier: Connect 8,000+ apps and build your own AI agents right inside ChatGPT. Link 👉 https://bit.ly/4gtcqwt Reach: Pick any four-year college, type in your student's GPA and test score, and see their odds built from that college's own published admissions data. Free. Link 👉 https://highschoolreach.com Subscribe for more conversations on intimacy, AI, and what it costs us to stop talking to each other. #podcast #intimacy #relationships #AI #GenZ

August 17, 2026Episode 521 hr 9 min

Can Medicine Survive Without AI? | Dr. Bertalan Meskó, The Medical Futurist

Dr. Bertalan Meskó — The Medical Futurist — argues that AI in medicine was never a choice. It's arithmetic. The world is short roughly 6 million healthcare workers today, and the WHO projects 11 million by 2030. About a billion people have zero access to care. We will never train our way out of that gap. "It's not a choice. It's a must," Berci says — because without AI, "we will not be able to keep on providing healthcare." He'd know how fast this is moving: in 2020 his team combed the FDA database and found 64 cleared AI-based medical technologies. Today there are nearly 1,500, and the number will pass 2,000 soon. Meanwhile a billion people wear a sensor tracking a vital sign, and of the ~1.5 billion who've used a large language model, most have asked it something about their health. Which brings us to the line that reframes everything: the era of Dr. Google is over, and we now live in the Dr. AI era. Patients no longer just arrive with information — they arrive with clinical reasoning. "Physicians used to be the key holders to the ivory tower of medicine. But there is no tower anymore. There is no gate. There is no key." We also get into why a professional futurist refuses to make predictions, why he's trained with a chess coach for eight years just to share a language with AI, what three months as one of the most-tested humans alive actually taught him — and his own technological sublime moment, when he stopped asking AI for answers and started asking: what am I missing? His answer to that, nine times out of ten, is something he'd genuinely missed. TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 "As a futurist, I expect AI to replace me in 10 years" 00:51 What AI actually changes in medicine 01:37 The math: 11 million missing health workers by 2030 07:18 From 64 FDA-cleared AI tools to nearly 1,500 10:15 Dr. Google is over. This is the Dr. AI era. 14:42 The baseline test his insurance wouldn't run 18:09 Healthcare goes global — your country matters less 22:20 The evidence gate every AI tool has to pass 26:32 Sponsor — Zapier 28:56 Why a professional futurist refuses to predict 44:12 The technological sublime: "What am I missing?" 48:48 Sponsor — Reach 49:23 Eight years of chess to speak AI's language 1:02:23 300 blood markers, and why longevity is a map EPISODE LINKS: The Medical Futurist: https://medicalfuturist.com Dr. Meskó on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/berci The Medical Futurist on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MedicalFuturist Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: Zapier — build your own AI agent with the ChatGPT integration: https://bit.ly/4bR1zLr Reach — see any college's real admissions odds for your student's GPA and test score, free: https://highschoolreach.com/yt PODCAST INFO: - Podcast website: https://nickstandlea.com - Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-nick-standlea-podcast/id1700331903 - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0YqBBneFsKtQ6Y0ArP5CXJ SUPPORT & CONNECT: - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nickstandlea/ - TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@nickstandlea - X: https://x.com/nickstandlea Ask questions. Don't accept the status quo. Be curious. #AI #MedicalFuturist #BertalanMesko #HealthTech #AIinMedicine #Longevity #NickStandleaShow

July 30, 2026Episode 511 hr 12 min

The 3 Levels of AI Mastery | Igor Pogany | "It Knows Me Better Than My Spouse"

Igor Pogany — creator of The AI Advantage (one of YouTube's most-followed AI channels) — joins The Nick Standlea Show to map out how to actually win with AI right now, without the hype. Igor's framework is a pyramid with three levels: Level 1 is AI for answers (a fancy Google). Level 2 is AI as a thought partner — one with enough context on you that it sharpens every decision you make. Level 3 is the architect: building agents and systems that run without you. The big mistake? Jumping from Level 1 straight to Level 3 — "like marrying somebody you went on one date with." Along the way: how to surf the wake of the AI giants instead of drowning in it, why your old ChatGPT conversations are a goldmine of daily automations, what an "AI agent" really is once you strip the marketing, the AI board of advisors that told Nick his deepest fear ("quiet irrelevance"), why hallucinations mean AI won't take as many jobs as people think, why these models are grown — not programmed — and what that means for the light and the dark inside them, and the one-on-one AI tutor that could remake education. Igor's challenge to you: ask your AI, "Tell me one thing about myself that I wouldn't know." Then buckle up. EPISODE LINKS: The AI Advantage Club: https://aiadvantage.com Igor's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@aiadvantage Igor's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/igorpogany Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: Granola — the AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings: https://go.granola.ai/the-nick-standlea-show Zapier — build your own AI agent with the ChatGPT integration: https://bit.ly/4vxDr8l PODCAST INFO: - Podcast website: https://nickstandlea.com - Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-nick-standlea-podcast/id1700331903 - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0YqBBneFsKtQ6Y0ArP5CXJ SUPPORT & CONNECT: - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nickstandlea/ - TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@nickstandlea - X: https://x.com/nickstandlea Chapters: 00:00 "It knows me better than my spouse" 01:03 Surfing the wake of the AI giants 04:42 The $200,000 app you can now build yourself 08:03 Turn your old ChatGPT chats into daily automations 10:22 What an AI agent actually is — minus the hype 17:09 The 3 levels of AI mastery 30:35 An AI board of advisors — and "quiet irrelevance" 37:08 Why AI won't take as many jobs as you think 43:04 Grown, not programmed: AI's light and dark 47:38 A one-on-one AI tutor for every student Ask questions. Don't accept the status quo. Be curious. #AI #IgorPogany #AIAdvantage #ChatGPT #Claude #AIAgents #NickStandleaShow

July 1, 2026Episode 501 hr 1 min

Guru CEO: Not Without Human Experts | Rick Nucci

AI tools are powerful. But do they actually know your company? Rick Nucci, CEO of Guru and founder of Boomi, joins The Nick Standlea Show to explain why AI inside companies is much harder than personal productivity with ChatGPT. The models may be capable, but they don’t automatically understand your team, your products, your customers, your pricing, your processes, or the way your company actually works. And that’s where things get dangerous. Rick argues that the future of AI at work depends on accurate company context, verified knowledge, human experts, and leaders who understand that AI should amplify people, not simply replace them. We talk about hallucinations, AI agents, middle management, company culture, vibe coding, token waste, and why some AI rollouts will create real ROI while others will just become expensive distractions. This conversation is about what separates companies that actually benefit from AI from the ones that just buy a bunch of tools and hope something happens. Learn more about Guru: https://www.getguru.com Follow Rick Nucci on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricknucci/ Visit Our Sponsors: Granola: Granola is an AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings — not another meeting bot. You jot down the things that matter, and Granola transcribes in the background. When the meeting ends, it turns your rough notes into clear, useful, AI-enhanced notes. Link 👉 https://go.granola.ai/the-nick-standlea-show Zapier: Build your own AI Agent with Zapier. Link 👉 https://bit.ly/4vxDr8l Subscribe for more conversations on AI, work, learning, business, and the future of human judgment. #AI #Business #FutureOfWork #Leadership #Guru

June 18, 2026Episode 491 hr 23 min

Can Truth Survive AI? | Steve Rosenbaum | The Future of Truth

What happens when AI becomes so good that we can no longer tell what is real? In this episode of The NickStandlea Show, Nick sits down with Steve Rosenbaum to talk about AI, misinformation, fake video, social media, education, creativity, and the future of truth. Steve argues that AI is not simply another new technology. It is a force that may change how we understand reality itself. From deepfake videos and hallucinated facts to algorithmic decision-making and AI-generated media, the conversation explores what happens when machines become confident, persuasive, and often wrong. But this is not just a doom-and-gloom conversation. Nick and Steve also discuss the real upside of AI: better tools, more creativity, faster work, and new possibilities in law, medicine, education, and the arts. The central question is not whether AI is good or bad. It is whether we can build a future where AI serves human beings instead of quietly reshaping our choices, attention, and trust. Topics include: AI-generated video and the future of fake media Why people overestimate their ability to spot AI content ChatGPT hallucinations and “confidently wrong” answers The difference between objective truth and subjective truth What social media can teach us about AI risk Whether AI will make people more productive or less human How students, teachers, and parents should think about AI Hidden incentives behind AI platforms Why “human in the loop” may be too simplistic What ordinary people can do as AI becomes more powerful This is a conversation about truth, technology, and what it means to stay human in the age of artificial intelligence. Subscribe for more conversations on AI, psychology, education, culture, and the future of human potential. Visit Our Sponsors: Granola: Granola is an AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings — not another meeting bot. You jot down the things that matter, and Granola transcribes in the background. When the meeting ends, it turns your rough notes into clear, useful, AI-enhanced notes. Link 👉 https://go.granola.ai/the-nick-standlea-show Zapier: 👉 Build your own AI Agent with Zapier. Link: https://youtu.be/u9jduhd2R64 Learn more about Steve Rosenbaum: The Future of Truth: https://amzn.to/4vogtRg Steve on Medium: https://stevenrosenbaum.medium.com/ Steve on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-rosenbaum Sustainable Media Center: https://sustainablemedia.center/ #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Truth #Misinformation #Deepfakes #ChatGPT #TheNickStandleaShow #SteveRosenbaum

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