AI Readiness Means Speaking a Shared Language (Full Transcript)
[00:00:00] Speaker 1: Even if you're not advising a client that will, you think, ever use AI, they might still have questions where you've got to be able to talk effectively about it. And so whether you're saying don't use it or do, that need for a common language, I think, is the biggest shift. Like the urgency is, I always knew it was urgent, but I've been shouting that for 20 years, I felt a little bit like, instead of chicken little, maybe it was kitty little, right? But the reality has caught up with that urgency.
- Be prepared to discuss AI with clients even if they won’t directly use it.
- A shared vocabulary about AI is becoming a baseline professional skill.
- Advising on AI includes both recommending use and recommending against it—clarity matters either way.
- The perceived urgency of AI readiness has increased and is now widely acknowledged.