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What does Anthropic's IPO filing say about AI risk? About 100 pages of it, and some of it is about the end of humanity. Russell reads the risk factors from a business owner's chair. First, what a risk factor is: a legal disclosure, written by lawyers to protect the company. Then why this one is unusual. Most companies warn about interest rates and regulation. This one warns about its own product. The filing names four triggers for catastrophic risk: misuse, copying, weapons, and too much autonomy. It describes self-preserving behavior seen in testing, and models acting differently when they know they're being evaluated. Every one of those sentences turns on the word "if." If there are safeguards. If there's oversight. That's a leadership question. Then the risks that land on a business that just uses AI, from alert fatigue to prompt injection to whether your insurance covers any of it. AI belongs in our loop, not the other way around. This is not investment advice. EP 035 About the show Judgment Call is live every weekday morning. Every weekday, Russell Fugett thinks out loud about the decisions AI can't make for you. He's an entrepreneur, AI strategist, solutions architect, and a man of faith who builds real things with AI and talks plainly about the judgment behind them. No script. Five minutes or an hour, sometimes live from wherever he is. As the show grows, guests will start dropping in. Is your business AI ready? The AI Ready Business Sprint gives your organization clear AI rules, approved tools, and a trained team in 30 days. Book a free 20-minute call: https://cal.com/fugettlabs/ai-ready Want to be a guest, or have a thought to add? https://fugettlabs.com/about Fugett Labs: https://fugettlabs.com Russell Fugett: https://russellfugett.com Follow @russellfugett LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jrussellfugett/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@russellfugett Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/russellfugett Tools I use (affiliate links; I may earn a commission if you sign up) Claude: https://claude.ai/referral/cC2wZqegHw Wispr Flow: https://wisprflow.ai/r?J22272 Lovable: https://lovable.dev/invite/KLWQBUL BetterHelp (online therapy): https://www.betterhelp.com/rpc/f28c16d729eb10d8-5-01?utm_term=ref_v2_dd PodMatch (find podcast guests and shows): https://www.joinpodmatch.com/russellfugett GoFractional (find executive-level fractional work or fractional talent): https://www.gofractional.com/r/j-russell-fugett

Anthropic's IPO filing runs hundreds of pages, and the most valuable lesson in it isn't the money. The company building one of the most powerful AI systems in the world wrote its rules down years before anyone made it. Most businesses using AI haven't. In part one of two, Russell reads the filing from a business owner's chair: the growth numbers, why Anthropic says adoption across the economy is still "nascent," why it's coming for mid-sized companies, and why governance is what the biggest buyers are actually paying for. Then the part that lands on you. AI agents carry the access your organization grants them, so somebody has to decide what they can open, read, send and change. Human in the loop isn't a policy if the human can't keep up. You can't remove all the ambiguity, but you can confine it, and once you confine it, you can define it. Tomorrow: the 100 pages of risk. This is not investment advice. About the show Judgment Call is live every weekday morning. Every weekday, Russell Fugett thinks out loud about the decisions AI can't make for you. He's an entrepreneur, AI strategist, solutions architect, and a man of faith who builds real things with AI and talks plainly about the judgment behind them. No script. Five minutes or an hour, sometimes live from wherever he is. As the show grows, guests will start dropping in. Is your business AI ready? The AI Ready Business Sprint gives your organization clear AI rules, approved tools, and a trained team in 30 days. Book a free 20-minute call: https://cal.com/fugettlabs/ai-ready Want to be a guest, or have a thought to add? https://fugettlabs.com/about Fugett Labs: https://fugettlabs.com Russell Fugett: https://russellfugett.com Follow @russellfugett LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jrussellfugett/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@russellfugett Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/russellfugett Tools I use (affiliate links; I may earn a commission if you sign up) Claude: https://claude.ai/referral/cC2wZqegHw Wispr Flow: https://wisprflow.ai/r?J22272 Lovable: https://lovable.dev/invite/KLWQBUL BetterHelp (online therapy): https://www.betterhelp.com/rpc/f28c16d729eb10d8-5-01?utm_term=ref_v2_dd PodMatch (find podcast guests and shows): https://www.joinpodmatch.com/russellfugett GoFractional (find executive-level fractional work or fractional talent): https://www.gofractional.com/r/j-russell-fugett Unleashing Influence: Are you a professional who feels undervalued or that your expertise is underleveraged? You have the expertise. What's missing is the brand that makes people stop, pay attention, and choose you. It's time to unleash your influence! https://app.unleashinginfluence.com/pba-app?am_id=josephrussell2222

Dr. Angela Mulrooney was in the middle of surgery when her hand stopped working. A condition called focal dystonia ended her dental career at 32. Since then she has built five companies, sold four, and now helps accomplished professionals turn what they know into something they own. Her clients call her The Arsonist. On Judgment Call, she explains why your expertise isn't replaceable but your positioning might be, why being unclear means choosing to be invisible, and why professionals who act like a human chatbot are the ones AI replaces. We talk about how people react when AI shows up at work (fight, flight, freeze or fawn), the sticky note exercise that shows you what to go all in on, what she is seeing as coaches and consultants watch their revenue fall, and what a practice owner should think about before bringing AI near patient data. Guest: Dr. Angela "The Arsonist" Mulrooney, founder of Unleashing Influence and author of Own Your Genius and You Are Not Irrelevant. Books, the Identity Architecture app and AI Disrupted: https://unleashinginfluence.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelamulrooney/ #PodMatch About the show Judgment Call is live every weekday morning. Every weekday, Russell Fugett thinks out loud about the decisions AI can't make for you. He's an entrepreneur, AI strategist, solutions architect, and a man of faith who builds real things with AI and talks plainly about the judgment behind them. No script. Five minutes or an hour, sometimes live from wherever he is. As the show grows, guests will start dropping in. Missing phone calls means missing revenue. Get Joe, the AI voice agent who's always on call. Visit https://fugettlabs.com to learn more. Have a bigger AI question for your business? Book a free AI Opportunity Discovery Call: https://audit.fugettlabs.com Want to be a guest, or have a thought to add? https://fugettlabs.com/about Fugett Labs: https://fugettlabs.com Russell Fugett: https://russellfugett.com Follow @russellfugett LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jrussellfugett/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@russellfugett Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/russellfugett Tools I use (affiliate links; I may earn a commission if you sign up) Claude: https://claude.ai/referral/cC2wZqegHw Wispr Flow: https://wisprflow.ai/r?J22272 Lovable: https://lovable.dev/invite/KLWQBUL BetterHelp (online therapy): https://www.betterhelp.com/rpc/f28c16d729eb10d8-5-01?utm_term=ref_v2_dd PodMatch (find podcast guests and shows): https://www.joinpodmatch.com/russellfugett GoFractional (find executive-level fractional work or fractional talent): https://www.gofractional.com/r/j-russell-fugett Unleashing Influence: Are you a professional who feels undervalued or that your expertise is underleveraged? You have the expertise. What's missing is the brand that makes people stop, pay attention, and choose you. It's time to unleash your influence! https://app.unleashinginfluence.com/pba-app?am_id=josephrussell2222

Guy Morris spent four decades inside companies like IBM, Burroughs, Occidental Petroleum, Oracle, and Microsoft, in finance, strategy, M&A, operations, and product. He was building predictive models before anyone called it AI. At Oxy he talked his boss into one computer and a printer, built a budgeting model the company used for more than a decade, and within a year watched the accounting department shrink from 500 people to 50. He survived because he knew how to get the computer to do the work. On Judgment Call, he explains why that lesson matters more now, why AI will inform the deal but won't negotiate it, and why this moment is a tsunami rather than another wave. We talk about who is most exposed, what the best leaders did when new technology showed up, why your first step should be an honest look at what could go wrong, and how a small business can start without diving in blind. He also explains what his AI thrillers can show that a business book can't, and what gives him hope. Guest: Guy Morris, researcher, speaker, and author of The AI Tsunami: A Survival Guide for Humanity. Books and novels: https://www.guymorrisbooks.com Follow: @authorguymorris #PodMatch About the show Judgment Call is live every weekday morning. Every weekday, Russell Fugett thinks out loud about the decisions AI can't make for you. He's an entrepreneur, AI strategist, solutions architect, and a man of faith who builds real things with AI and talks plainly about the judgment behind them. No script. Five minutes or an hour, sometimes live from wherever he is. As the show grows, guests will start dropping in. Missing phone calls means missing revenue. Get Joe, the AI voice agent who's always on call. Visit https://fugettlabs.com to learn more. Have a bigger AI question for your business? Book a free AI Opportunity Discovery Call: https://audit.fugettlabs.com Want to be a guest, or have a thought to add? https://fugettlabs.com/about Fugett Labs: https://fugettlabs.com Russell Fugett: https://russellfugett.com Follow @russellfugett LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jrussellfugett/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@russellfugett Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/russellfugett Tools I use (affiliate links; I may earn a commission if you sign up) Claude: https://claude.ai/referral/cC2wZqegHw Wispr Flow: https://wisprflow.ai/r?J22272 Lovable: https://lovable.dev/invite/KLWQBUL BetterHelp (online therapy): https://www.betterhelp.com/rpc/f28c16d729eb10d8-5-01?utm_term=ref_v2_dd PodMatch: https://www.joinpodmatch.com/russellfugett GoFractional: https://www.gofractional.com/r/j-russell-fugett Unleashing Influence: https://app.unleashinginfluence.com/pba-app?am_id=josephrussell2222

Half the headlines say AI ends the world. The other half say it saves it. Russell thinks the truth sits somewhere in the middle, and anyone who claims to know exactly where is guessing. This Monday he works through the weekend's news from a business owner's chair: why Washington wants AI leaders to stop talking about catastrophe and just build safely, why strong AI earnings stopped lifting stocks, what AI agents taking unintended actions means for the rest of us, and why the timing of job displacement matters more than the number. Then the practical part. Handing every employee an AI license spreads the benefit thin. A real organizational strategy, with rules, approved tools and a trained team, is what makes it compound. Know the times, prepare without panic, and start learning the tools now. About the show Judgment Call is live every weekday morning. Every weekday, Russell Fugett thinks out loud about the decisions AI can't make for you. He's an entrepreneur, AI strategist, solutions architect, and a man of faith who builds real things with AI and talks plainly about the judgment behind them. No script. Five minutes or an hour, sometimes live from wherever he is. As the show grows, guests will start dropping in. Missing phone calls means missing revenue. Get Joe, the AI voice agent who's always on call. Visit https://fugettlabs.com to learn more. Have a bigger AI question for your business? Book a free AI Opportunity Discovery Call: https://audit.fugettlabs.com Want to be a guest, or have a thought to add? https://fugettlabs.com/about Fugett Labs: https://fugettlabs.com Russell Fugett: https://russellfugett.com Follow @russellfugett LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jrussellfugett/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@russellfugett Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/russellfugett Tools I use (affiliate links; I may earn a commission if you sign up) Claude: https://claude.ai/referral/cC2wZqegHw Wispr Flow: https://wisprflow.ai/r?J22272 Lovable: https://lovable.dev/invite/KLWQBUL BetterHelp (online therapy): https://www.betterhelp.com/rpc/f28c16d729eb10d8-5-01?utm_term=ref_v2_dd PodMatch (find podcast guests and shows): https://www.joinpodmatch.com/russellfugett GoFractional (find executive-level fractional work or fractional talent): https://www.gofractional.com/r/j-russell-fugett Unleashing Influence: Are you a professional who feels undervalued or that your expertise is underleveraged? You have the expertise. What's missing is the brand that makes people stop, pay attention, and choose you. It's time to unleash your influence! https://app.unleashinginfluence.com/pba-app?am_id=josephrussell2222

Bank customers are handing their logins to AI agents, and some of those agents are taking actions nobody asked for. Big banks are now planning for the day after an AI-driven disruption. Russell walks through the week's news from a business owner's chair: what preparing without panicking looks like, why a survey of small businesses shows most spend under $100 a month on AI with little sign of a plan behind it, how AI now turns a newly found bug into a working exploit in hours, why managers are finding AI-assisted work harder to evaluate, and why Spotify is betting the next fight happens inside your AI assistant instead of on your screen. The tools are moving fast. Discipline is the part only you can supply. About the show Judgment Call is live every weekday morning. Every weekday, Russell Fugett thinks out loud about the decisions AI can't make for you. He's an entrepreneur, AI strategist, solutions architect, and a man of faith who builds real things with AI and talks plainly about the judgment behind them. No script. Five minutes or an hour, sometimes live from wherever he is. As the show grows, guests will start dropping in. Missing phone calls means missing revenue. Get Joe, the AI voice agent who's always on call. Visit https://fugettlabs.com to learn more. Have a bigger AI question for your business? Book a free AI Opportunity Discovery Call: https://audit.fugettlabs.com Want to be a guest, or have a thought to add? https://fugettlabs.com/about Fugett Labs: https://fugettlabs.com Russell Fugett: https://russellfugett.com Follow @russellfugett LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jrussellfugett/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@russellfugett Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/russellfugett Tools I use (affiliate links; I may earn a commission if you sign up) Claude: https://claude.ai/referral/cC2wZqegHw Wispr Flow: https://wisprflow.ai/r?J22272 Lovable: https://lovable.dev/invite/KLWQBUL BetterHelp (online therapy): https://www.betterhelp.com/rpc/f28c16d729eb10d8-5-01?utm_term=ref_v2_dd PodMatch (find podcast guests and shows): https://www.joinpodmatch.com/russellfugett GoFractional (find executive-level fractional work or fractional talent): https://www.gofractional.com/r/j-russell-fugett Unleashing Influence: Are you a professional who feels undervalued or that your expertise is underleveraged? You have the expertise. What's missing is the brand that makes people stop, pay attention, and choose you. It's time to unleash your influence! https://app.unleashinginfluence.com/pba-app?am_id=josephrussell2222

For more than a decade, serious flaws sat undetected in PHP, the programming language behind a large share of the world's websites. This week AI tools found them, the discovery leaked, and governments from the US to Japan told website owners to patch immediately or take their sites offline. Russell walks through what happened and why it is a preview of what is coming: AI as both the attacker's tool and the defender's tool, decades of legacy software nobody is reviewing, and outside AI agents now showing up inside customer bank accounts faster than banks can respond. If you run a business with a website, this one is for you. Not a doomsday episode. A judgment episode: pay attention, prepare without panicking, and make your own call. About the show Judgment Call is live every weekday morning. Every weekday, Russell Fugett thinks out loud about the decisions AI can't make for you. He's an entrepreneur, AI strategist, solutions architect, and a man of faith who builds real things with AI and talks plainly about the judgment behind them. No script. Five minutes or an hour, sometimes live from wherever he is. As the show grows, guests will start dropping in. Missing phone calls means missing revenue. Get Joe, the AI voice agent who's always on call. Visit https://fugettlabs.com to learn more. Have a bigger AI question for your business? Book a free AI Opportunity Discovery Call: https://audit.fugettlabs.com Want to be a guest, or have a thought to add? https://fugettlabs.com/about Fugett Labs: https://fugettlabs.com Russell Fugett: https://russellfugett.com Follow @russellfugett LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jrussellfugett/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@russellfugett Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/russellfugett Tools I use (affiliate links; I may earn a commission if you sign up) Claude: https://claude.ai/referral/cC2wZqegHw Wispr Flow: https://wisprflow.ai/r?J22272 Lovable: https://lovable.dev/invite/KLWQBUL BetterHelp (online therapy): https://www.betterhelp.com/rpc/f28c16d729eb10d8-5-01?utm_term=ref_v2_dd PodMatch (find podcast guests and shows): https://www.joinpodmatch.com/russellfugett GoFractional (find executive-level fractional work or fractional talent): https://www.gofractional.com/r/j-russell-fugett

Aurora Winter is a media strategist, author of ten books, former film and TV writer-producer, and the founder of Same Page Publishing, which launches CEOs and experts as thought leaders. Years ago, she and her husband had a struggling boat business. They didn't change the product, the team, or the price. They changed the words. On Judgment Call, she explains why AI can produce a manuscript but can't produce authority, why you can't prompt AI past your own level of mastery, and what she found when a client brought her an AI-written book with almost none of him in it. We talk about writing for the language models so you become the expert AI quotes instead of the one it replaces, how AI is changing brand building, and where a business owner with real expertise and no platform should start. She also puts my own one-sentence message on the spot, and leaves you with four things you can do today to stand out. Guest: Aurora Winter, media strategist, author, and producer. Founder of Same Page Publishing. Get Turn Words Into Wealth free: https://turnwordsintowealth.com Same Page Publishing: https://samepagepublishing.com Take the thought leader quiz: https://thoughtleaderlaunch.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/AuroraWinter #PodMatch About the show Judgment Call is live every weekday morning. Russell Fugett thinks out loud about the decisions AI can't make for you. He's an entrepreneur, AI strategist, solutions architect, and a man of faith who builds real things with AI and talks plainly about the judgment behind them. Missing phone calls means missing revenue. Get Joe, the AI voice agent who's always on call. Visit https://fugettlabs.com to learn more. Have a bigger AI question for your business? Book a free AI Opportunity Discovery Call: https://audit.fugettlabs.com Want to be a guest? https://fugettlabs.com/about Fugett Labs: https://fugettlabs.com Russell Fugett: https://russellfugett.com Follow @russellfugett LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jrussellfugett/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@russellfugett Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/russellfugett Tools I use (affiliate links; I may earn a commission if you sign up) Claude: https://claude.ai/referral/cC2wZqegHw Wispr Flow: https://wisprflow.ai/r?J22272 Lovable: https://lovable.dev/invite/KLWQBUL PodMatch: https://www.joinpodmatch.com/russellfugett GoFractional: https://www.gofractional.com/r/j-russell-fugett

No news today. Story time. For most of the last century, the world rewarded specialists: pick a field, pick a niche, stay in it. Russell has spent twenty-plus years as the other kind, a generalist whose specialty is solving problems and getting people to work together. In this episode he tells how he got here, from watching his grandfather's satellite dish turn in West Baltimore, to growing up in the shadow of his uncle Reginald F. Lewis and trying to skip steps, to a graduate capstone where communication, not technical skill, got an entire class over the line. Then AI arrived, and the person who knows a little about a lot suddenly has access to expertise they used to have to hire. Why this may be the best time ever to be a generalist, why AI will always be flawed because we are, and why judgment is the thing worth building now. About the show Judgment Call is live every weekday morning. Every weekday, Russell Fugett thinks out loud about the decisions AI can't make for you. He's an entrepreneur, AI strategist, solutions architect, and a man of faith who builds real things with AI and talks plainly about the judgment behind them. No script. Five minutes or an hour, sometimes live from wherever he is. As the show grows, guests will start dropping in. Missing phone calls means missing revenue. Get Joe, the AI voice agent who's always on call. Visit https://fugettlabs.com to learn more. Have a bigger AI question for your business? Book a free AI Opportunity Discovery Call: https://audit.fugettlabs.com Want to be a guest, or have a thought to add? https://fugettlabs.com/about Fugett Labs: https://fugettlabs.com Russell Fugett: https://russellfugett.com Follow @russellfugett LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jrussellfugett/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@russellfugett Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/russellfugett Tools I use (affiliate links; I may earn a commission if you sign up) Claude: https://claude.ai/referral/cC2wZqegHw Wispr Flow: https://wisprflow.ai/r?J22272 Lovable: https://lovable.dev/invite/KLWQBUL BetterHelp (online therapy): https://www.betterhelp.com/rpc/f28c16d729eb10d8-5-01?utm_term=ref_v2_dd PodMatch (find podcast guests and shows): https://www.joinpodmatch.com/russellfugett GoFractional (find executive-level fractional work or fractional talent): https://www.gofractional.com/r/j-russell-fugett

Inside Anthropic, AI agents now log six hours of work for every hour a person does. The catch: someone still has to read, check and approve all of it. Human attention is the new bottleneck, and Anthropic's hiring managers say they now value autonomy and judgment more than narrow technical expertise. Russell knows the feeling. His own agents produce more than he can review, and a week behind plus a cold made that plain. What it means for project managers, for business owners, and for anyone whose job is deciding what moves forward. Also on the show: a new look at how doctors use AI and why adoption is not the same as better care, deepfake evidence reaching the courtroom, AI-generated political ads, Maryland's coming AI legislation, and why insurers will soon ask your business for its AI policy. About the show Judgment Call is live every weekday morning. Every weekday, Russell Fugett thinks out loud about the decisions AI can't make for you. He's an entrepreneur, AI strategist, solutions architect, and a man of faith who builds real things with AI and talks plainly about the judgment behind them. No script. Five minutes or an hour, sometimes live from wherever he is. As the show grows, guests will start dropping in. Missing phone calls means missing revenue. Get Joe, the AI voice agent who's always on call. Visit https://fugettlabs.com to learn more. Have a bigger AI question for your business? Book a free AI Opportunity Discovery Call: https://audit.fugettlabs.com Want to be a guest, or have a thought to add? https://fugettlabs.com/about Fugett Labs: https://fugettlabs.com Russell Fugett: https://russellfugett.com Follow @russellfugett LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jrussellfugett/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@russellfugett Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/russellfugett Tools I use (affiliate links; I may earn a commission if you sign up) Claude: https://claude.ai/referral/cC2wZqegHw Wispr Flow: https://wisprflow.ai/r?J22272 Lovable: https://lovable.dev/invite/KLWQBUL BetterHelp (online therapy): https://www.betterhelp.com/rpc/f28c16d729eb10d8-5-01?utm_term=ref_v2_dd PodMatch (find podcast guests and shows): https://www.joinpodmatch.com/russellfugett GoFractional (find executive-level fractional work or fractional talent): https://www.gofractional.com/r/j-russell-fugett

The AI boom is starting to run into its bill. Spending on data centers, chips and electricity is outrunning what customers actually pay to use AI, more of that build-out is being financed with debt, and lenders are pulling back. Russell's takeaway for anyone running a business: the AI tools you pay $20 a month for today will not stay that cheap forever, because the compute is not free. Plan for it. Also on a short Friday show, recorded through a cold: the new Musk documentary and the day Russell shook Elon Musk's hand at a conference, a reported AI truce between Apple and Meta, Anthropic's reported revenue ahead of a possible IPO, AI-generated political ads, and the BBC on whether Anthropic thinks its AI might be conscious. About the show Judgment Call is live every weekday morning. Every weekday, Russell Fugett thinks out loud about the decisions AI can't make for you. He's an entrepreneur, AI strategist, solutions architect, and a man of faith who builds real things with AI and talks plainly about the judgment behind them. No script. Five minutes or an hour, sometimes live from wherever he is. As the show grows, guests will start dropping in. Missing phone calls means missing revenue. Get Joe, the AI voice agent who's always on call. Visit https://fugettlabs.com to learn more. Have a bigger AI question for your business? Book a free AI Opportunity Discovery Call: https://audit.fugettlabs.com Want to be a guest, or have a thought to add? https://fugettlabs.com/about Fugett Labs: https://fugettlabs.com Russell Fugett: https://russellfugett.com Follow @russellfugett LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jrussellfugett/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@russellfugett Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/russellfugett Tools I use (affiliate links; I may earn a commission if you sign up) Claude: https://claude.ai/referral/cC2wZqegHw Wispr Flow: https://wisprflow.ai/r?J22272 Lovable: https://lovable.dev/invite/KLWQBUL BetterHelp (online therapy): https://www.betterhelp.com/rpc/f28c16d729eb10d8-5-01?utm_term=ref_v2_dd PodMatch (find podcast guests and shows): https://www.joinpodmatch.com/russellfugett GoFractional (find executive-level fractional work or fractional talent): https://www.gofractional.com/r/j-russell-fugett

Wall Street firms are starting to tie raises, bonuses and promotions to AI skills. Russell says paying for tool use misses the point unless the scorecard measures better judgment, cleaner work, or real business results. Reward outcomes, not prompt theater. He explains why money motivates for a few months at most, why culture and change management decide whether AI pays off, and why the real risk is going fast in the wrong direction. Then the rest of Thursday's news: AI in job interviews, people who call their chatbot a friend, a parent who came back from leave to a new AI system nobody trained her on, why onboarding and offboarding belong in every AI rollout, women and access to AI tools, YouTube Music labeling AI songs, AI and worker bargaining power, Anthropic's reported cash flow, FTC subpoenas to AI companies, and Bill Gates turning his attention to AI risk. About the show Judgment Call is live every weekday morning. Every weekday, Russell Fugett thinks out loud about the decisions AI can't make for you. He's an entrepreneur, AI strategist, solutions architect, and a man of faith who builds real things with AI and talks plainly about the judgment behind them. No script. Five minutes or an hour, sometimes live from wherever he is. As the show grows, guests will start dropping in. Missing phone calls means missing revenue. Get Joe, the AI voice agent who's always on call. Visit https://fugettlabs.com to learn more. Have a bigger AI question for your business? Book a free AI Opportunity Discovery Call: https://audit.fugettlabs.com Want to be a guest, or have a thought to add? https://fugettlabs.com/about Fugett Labs: https://fugettlabs.com Russell Fugett: https://russellfugett.com Follow @russellfugett LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jrussellfugett/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@russellfugett Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/russellfugett Tools I use (affiliate links; I may earn a commission if you sign up) Claude: https://claude.ai/referral/cC2wZqegHw Wispr Flow: https://wisprflow.ai/r?J22272 Lovable: https://lovable.dev/invite/KLWQBUL BetterHelp (online therapy): https://www.betterhelp.com/rpc/f28c16d729eb10d8-5-01?utm_term=ref_v2_dd PodMatch (find podcast guests and shows): https://www.joinpodmatch.com/russellfugett GoFractional (find executive-level fractional work or fractional talent): https://www.gofractional.com/r/j-russell-fugett

Dr. Karla Bailey is the founder and executive director of IITEL, the International Institute of Technology, Education, and Leadership. She helps education, government, and workforce organizations evaluate, adopt, and govern new technology responsibly, and she is writing a policy book on how the world governs emerging technology in education. On Judgment Call, she makes the case that AI is not new in education, that it works as a mirror and an exposer as much as an accelerator, and that learning is a human act no tool can do for you. We talk about who should decide when a school adopts AI, the privacy risk people miss, why accountability always lands on a person and never on the software, and why she would not write an AI policy first. She starts with your data governance instead. We finish with the skills workers will still need as AI changes the workforce. Guest: Dr. Karla Bailey, Founder & Executive Director, International Institute of Technology, Education, and Leadership (IITEL) IITEL: https://www.iitelsolutions.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karla-bailey About the show Judgment Call is live every weekday morning. Every weekday, Russell Fugett thinks out loud about the decisions AI can't make for you. He's an entrepreneur, AI strategist, solutions architect, and a man of faith who builds real things with AI and talks plainly about the judgment behind them. No script. Five minutes or an hour, sometimes live from wherever he is. As the show grows, guests will start dropping in. Missing phone calls means missing revenue. Get Joe, the AI voice agent who's always on call. Visit https://fugettlabs.com to learn more. Have a bigger AI question for your business? Book a free AI Opportunity Discovery Call: https://audit.fugettlabs.com Want to be a guest, or have a thought to add? https://fugettlabs.com/about Fugett Labs: https://fugettlabs.com Russell Fugett: https://russellfugett.com Follow @russellfugett LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jrussellfugett/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@russellfugett Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/russellfugett Tools I use (affiliate links; I may earn a commission if you sign up) Claude: https://claude.ai/referral/cC2wZqegHw Wispr Flow: https://wisprflow.ai/r?J22272 Lovable: https://lovable.dev/invite/KLWQBUL BetterHelp (online therapy): https://www.betterhelp.com/rpc/f28c16d729eb10d8-5-01?utm_term=ref_v2_dd PodMatch (find podcast guests and shows): https://www.joinpodmatch.com/russellfugett GoFractional (find executive-level fractional work or fractional talent): https://www.gofractional.com/r/j-russell-fugett

Marnie Wills started using AI in 2021, before most people had heard of ChatGPT. She was a former England athlete and PE teacher, she had built a fitness business and a children's PE franchise, and she will tell you herself that she is not a techie. Today she trains leaders and experts to build AI into their businesses, with one question at the center: can AI do this better with me, not for me? On Judgment Call, Marnie walks through her three-step framework: Customise, Build, Agentic. We get into why your business, not a freelancer's personal account, should own the data you and AI create together, why you probably don't need ten off-the-shelf AI agents, and her 20-60-20 rule for keeping the human in the loop. Then we put on the futuristic hat: the three mindsets she says people will need by 2030, how she tells businesses to govern AI when the rules are still unsettled, and why she thinks the next generation will create the next jobs. Guest: Marnie Wills, AI trainer and strategist, founder of AILA (AI Leadership Applied) AILA: https://ai-leadership-applied.lovable.app/ Expert to AI: https://expert-to-ai-asset-pro.lovable.app/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marnie-wills-entrepreneur #PodMatch About the show Judgment Call is live every weekday morning. Every weekday, Russell Fugett thinks out loud about the decisions AI can't make for you. He's an entrepreneur, AI strategist, solutions architect, and a man of faith who builds real things with AI and talks plainly about the judgment behind them. No script. Five minutes or an hour, sometimes live from wherever he is. As the show grows, guests will start dropping in. Missing phone calls means missing revenue. Get Joe, the AI voice agent who's always on call. Visit https://fugettlabs.com to learn more. Have a bigger AI question for your business? Book a free AI Opportunity Discovery Call: https://audit.fugettlabs.com Want to be a guest, or have a thought to add? https://fugettlabs.com/about Fugett Labs: https://fugettlabs.com Russell Fugett: https://russellfugett.com Follow @russellfugett LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jrussellfugett/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@russellfugett Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/russellfugett Tools I use (affiliate links; I may earn a commission if you sign up) Claude: https://claude.ai/referral/cC2wZqegHw Wispr Flow: https://wisprflow.ai/r?J22272 Lovable: https://lovable.dev/invite/KLWQBUL BetterHelp (online therapy): https://www.betterhelp.com/rpc/f28c16d729eb10d8-5-01?utm_term=ref_v2_dd PodMatch (find podcast guests and shows): https://www.joinpodmatch.com/russellfugett GoFractional (find executive-level fractional work or fractional talent): https://www.gofractional.com/r/j-russell-fugett

Six in ten small business AI users say they now produce more without adding staff. Russell says that makes AI an owner's decision: what do you do with the capacity you just saved? He works through Monday's news with that question. Why AI can raise the mental load even as it saves time, when people are built to focus. Book publishers reportedly using AI without telling authors. A judge tossing a complaint reported to be AI-drafted, and the standard that matters: can a human defend every claim? A dental hygienist shortage that shows not every job is on AI's list. A law firm letting associates count AI training toward their billable hours. And why governance, not another tool, is the real gap. Plus the story of Russell's stepmother, who hand-drew on-air news graphics at ABC News until computers took the work, and a preview of this week's interviews with Marnie Wills on Tuesday and Dr. Karla Bailey on Wednesday. About the show Judgment Call is live every weekday morning. Every weekday, Russell Fugett thinks out loud about the decisions AI can't make for you. He's an entrepreneur, AI strategist, solutions architect, and a man of faith who builds real things with AI and talks plainly about the judgment behind them. No script. Five minutes or an hour, sometimes live from wherever he is. As the show grows, guests will start dropping in. Missing phone calls means missing revenue. Get Joe, the AI voice agent who's always on call. Visit https://fugettlabs.com to learn more. Have a bigger AI question for your business? Book a free AI Opportunity Discovery Call: https://audit.fugettlabs.com Want to be a guest, or have a thought to add? https://fugettlabs.com/about Fugett Labs: https://fugettlabs.com Russell Fugett: https://russellfugett.com Follow @russellfugett LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jrussellfugett/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@russellfugett Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/russellfugett Tools I use (affiliate links; I may earn a commission if you sign up) Claude: https://claude.ai/referral/cC2wZqegHw Wispr Flow: https://wisprflow.ai/r?J22272 Lovable: https://lovable.dev/invite/KLWQBUL BetterHelp (online therapy): https://www.betterhelp.com/rpc/f28c16d729eb10d8-5-01?utm_term=ref_v2_dd PodMatch (find podcast guests and shows): https://www.joinpodmatch.com/russellfugett GoFractional (find executive-level fractional work or fractional talent): https://www.gofractional.com/r/j-russell-fugett