AI Won’t Replace Your Brilliance; It Will Amplify It

The ground is moving beneath our feet again, and this time the shift is powered by AI, cloud, and always-on connectivity. We draw a straight line from earlier industrial revolutions to today’s reality and make a simple promise: you do not need permission to use these tools to amplify your work and build a legacy. Fear says stand back. Practice says jump in the water.

We break down the fourth industrial revolution in plain language and show how to turn AI from a buzzword into a daily collaborator. You will hear practical ways to pair tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot with intentional prompting to draft grants and proposals, sharpen storytelling, map audiences, and uncover blind spots in your strategy. We walk through a simple prompt framework—set context, define the task, add constraints, provide examples, and ask for critique—so you can run productive reps and get better outputs without hiring a team you cannot afford.

We also tackle the fear head-on. Bad actors will misuse technology, which is why good people must not sit on the sideline. Jobs will evolve, as they always have, and new roles are already forming for those willing to learn. The message is direct: AI is not here to replace your brilliance, but to scale it. Teach your kids responsible use. Choose one or two tools and go deep. Use AI to document processes, create reusable playbooks, and turn scattered ideas into work that moves your family and community forward.

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Chapters

• 0:00 From Job Skills To Tech Literacy
• 3:21 The Four Industrial Revolutions
• 5:00 Enter The Fourth: AI And Connectivity
• 6:45 Get In The Water: Start Using AI
• 9:10 AI As Tuning Fork For Change
• 12:20 Tools, Prompts, And Better Outcomes
• 15:00 Practice Like Pros: Prompt Mastery
• 18:00 Fear, Threats, And Good Actors
• 21:10 Jobs Evolve: Replace Vs. Reimagine
• 24:30 Teach Kids And Build Legacy
• 27:00 Coauthor With AI, Not Shortcut
• 29:00 Act Now: Choose Tools And Move

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:05

I remember applying to some uh entry-level work a while ago, and one of the questions that I've was often asked is uh have I you ever used uh Microsoft Office or computers or PowerPoint for presentation? And and on and on and on. Um so it always it it dawns on me that um you know being knowledgeable in the use of technology is essential for many of the jobs um at that time. So we are also we've come to the cross roads uh right now of another industrial revolution where um many uh at least for you to be able to get a decent job, uh there is an expectation that uh you are knowledgeable and able to use certain technology um um effectively and efficiently. So there are four industrial revolutions. The first one uh focused on the introduction of mechanical production, uh, particularly in the use of water and steam. Um the second industrial revolution uh was marked by the era of mass production and the adoption of electricity and assembly line. I remember those days, those factories are long gone, right? Uh uh well they're not long gone, but it it happens that in many parts of the United States, some of these factories have been moved to uh to other countries. Um uh take for example uh the automobile. Uh some of this factory has been moved across the border. So and many communities um were devastated because a lot of this manufacturing um um you know plants um you know were moved. Uh so what happened to people that depend on this uh manufacturing uh plants or assembly lines? Um well, without the ability to adapt, um it becomes very problematic. So the third industrial revolution um is the digital revolution as we all know it. Uh, this stage involves the use of computers and electronics uh to automate production, as we all know. Uh, is still happening, as a matter of fact. Um, but now we are in the fourth industrial revolution. Uh and it is defined by the fusion of physical, digital, biological system driven by technology such as AI, um, Internet of Teens, and cloud computing. The fourth industrial revolution is characterized by the integration of digital technology, again, like AI, the Internet of Tins, and the cloud computing to create highly connected intelligent systems. This ongoing shift, beginning in the twenty first century, builds upon the previous industrial revolution that introduced mechanization, uh, mass production and automation, and it is transforming industry through advanced manufacturing and data-driven decision. Um, so now my question to you at this point is where are you? Um where are you on this journey? Um are you sitting on the fence? Um or are you in the water? Um enjoying the water, having fun in the water. Um, I think the best place for you to be is to be in the water. Well, what do I mean by the water? Uh I mean the AI water. The AI water. Um are you using AI at all? Uh do you see AI as a tool? Are you using it as a tool? I hope you are. I I want to impress upon the BIPOC community. Um, and for those that are still sitting on the fence, that the use of AI can be a game changer, but you have to be in the water, you gotta feel the water, you gotta be in the water, you have to enjoy the water, right? Um so AI is not just a tool, it is a tuning fork for transformation. You want to transform um your industry or um maybe your business. Um maybe if you are into story building and storytelling. Um maybe you're not a good writer, but you have great ideas. Um, I think AI can be a game changer for you. Um so maybe you want to craft a great letter or uh an email, or you you know you want to come up with a proposal for a grant. Uh, do you I mean now you don't have to hire a a grant writer as and spend you know several hundreds of dollars in doing that. Uh, not to say that you should not hire someone. I'm just saying, let's say if you are in a position uh that you really don't have that means. So I think the use of AI, whether it is uh co-pilot, um whether it is uh chat GPT, like Claude, um I think Gemini, um, or all this other fancy AI that are out there. Um, I think the use of them can enhance, can um, you know, scale, right? Um whatever that you are trying to do. So sitting on the fence and not using AI, I think you're leaving money on the table. So I want you to imagine or to see AI as an as a tool, not to be afraid of. Um, the only time we should be afraid of AI is when people use the AI for nefarious purposes, they use it for with bad intention. And there are many there are people that are pretty savvy uh in utilizing uh the AI as a tool for their nefarious purposes. But I'm saying don't be afraid of it. Um I think our community has been some of us in our community may be afraid of the use of AI because um along the way we're afraid because things are changing, or maybe somebody has said uh that they are going to take your job. The only person that is going to be losing their job is the person that is not innovating, the person that is sitting on the sideline and and not learning how to move with the time. You have to move with the time. You cannot afford to stay still and let the world move or revolve around you. You got to be part of it, you have to be in the water, right? So AI is not just a tool, um, it is a tuning fork for transformation. You can use it to tweak. Uh, I love that to tweak whatever you're doing, to bring it to the next level. Uh, so let's say you want AI to you write this great prompt and you want AI to help you out uh as an assistant, right? Um I think have you ever been, have you ever asked the AI? What am I missing? What can I possibly, or how can I add more value? Let's say I have a business and I'm trying to market it to maybe a certain or particular group, right? Um, and there's a lot that you don't see, but AI has a a lot of information. Take for example, the chat GPT um has been trained with a lot of information. So it has a lot of data points, able to see many, many, many, many information. It's pretty good in assessing, right? Patterns. So you as an individual, as a human being, you don't have that brain capacity, but AI does. So AI can see the things um that probably you're missing. Maybe uh a target group that really could make your product more profitable, right? So so the use of AI as a tool, or let me put it this way, let me define a tool. What is a tool? A tool uh exists to exert a force or to achieve a certain outcome. So if you look at AI as a tool, and and now and then if you look at AI as modern a tool, and and you are able to pair AI with intentional prompting, right? Um prompting basically is asking the right type of question. Asking the AI um to perform a certain outcome, to perform a certain action. But within that, in the writing, there's a way in which you can write it that AI will give you a better result, right? Better, uh excellent result, better than better, right? Um, so when you are able to pair AI with intentional prompting, then this AI become your superpower. It helps you to amplify your skills across discipline and industry. It becomes not just as an assistant, but it also helps you to accelerate whatever that you're trying to do. So, but the key is getting in the waters and practicing, just like Michael Jordan or LeBron James. Um, they are expert in in their games, in what they do, because um they practice. Um practice made perfect. But if you're not in the water, you're not practicing, um, you're not feeling how or the the different uh because there are different types of AIs out there and they all perform different functions. And then you have to ask yourself, what are you trying to accomplish? So then now you have to choose amongst all the AIs that are there that can help you perform a particular function, but it has to be intentional. You have to be intentional. Have you ever seen a receiver um catching a football? Uh the the quarterback throws that football, then at the last second, the receiver is able to catch that um that ball and and at the end zone without his foot feet going out of the end zone, right? So to be able to do that, the quarterback and receiver, or whoever the quarterback is going to throw the ball to, they have tried, they have practiced that maneuver uh a hundred times or more than a hundred times. In the same manner, you you also have to practice. You have to practice. So a well-crafted prompt can sharpen ideas, guide your formulation, and unlock a new design direction by framing the right question, constraint or inspiration. Whether you are prototyping a product, drafting a framework, enhancing a concept, forecasting a trend, scaling, a solution, prompting acts like a resonance signal, bringing clarity, coherence, and unexpected insight. And by the way, do you know you can also ask the AI to perfect your prompting? So let's say I write a prompt. Um I can turn around and ask AI what's missing in my prompt. But again, you gotta always tell the AI um what you want the AI to be, and the action that you are trying to achieve, provide the AI with more details information, right? Um, it's kind of like uh nobody, well, I wouldn't say nobody. I think most of us don't like to eat bones. Um, but if we do eat meat, we uh uh we like meat to be on the bones, right? Um so the more meat that is on the bone, the better, right? Um, I know I don't know if that analogy makes sense. So it's the same idea. You have to give the AI a relevant and inform enough information to work with. But at the end of this, you can also turn around and ask the AI what's missing in my prompt or rewrite this prompt for me uh because I'm trying to achieve this goal, right? So don't be on the sideline, don't be on the fence. Get in the water, enjoy the water, be part of this innovation. The only people that are gaining that are moving forward are the people that are taking advantage of this technology, and they're taking it and they're running with it. So, in the hands of a visionary, are you a visionary? I hope you are. I want you to be a visionary. AI can become more than a tool, it can become your collaborator in innovation. Embrace that. You have to wholeheartedly to be part of this innovation. Well, our BIPOC community faced several deep-rooted challenges, and one of them um is the fear of AI. Um, one I will say there are several, but I will just focus on one at this point. Um the fear of AI in the in in the form of uh that AI is a threat. Well, AI is not a threat. Let's get one thing straight. AI is not a threat. I want you to see AI as a tool. The only time AI becomes a threat is when it is being trained inappropriately uh by the wrong type of information to hurt other people. Um when AI are being trained by you know uh the wrong type of information. Um so that uh that becomes more of a problem. And that is the reason why it is important for good people uh to use this technology in a good way. Why do you why do good people want to sit on the sideline and And allow the bad actor who are not afraid of jumping in the water, they look forward for new innovation because they're thinking of ways in which they can game you, they can game all of us. So jump in the water. AI, don't look at AI as a threat, see it as a tool. Um again, the big danger, the big threat that I see, literally, the big one that I see is when good people uh sit on the sideline or are on the fence, and then what happened is that uh good people are being left behind while others build a future with tools uh that you know that only help those that want to help themselves. And you're sitting on this on the fence, and then then it becomes a problem. Oh well, we told you AI is a threat. Well, it is a threat because you're sitting on the sideline, you're not in the water, you should be in the water, right? You should be taking advantage of this opportunity. Why are you leaving money on the table? Right? To me, when you're not part of this innovation, when you're not in the water, right, then you are living, literally, you are leaving money on the table. I'm pretty sure that all of us, um, uh we're not perfect, but you know, with anything that we have, we can make it perfect, right? We can make it perfect by actions, uh, others to look at whatever we're doing to give us some feedbacks, right? Um we can hire someone that can look at whatever we're doing to give us a feedback, right? We can do that, but many of us are not in the position whereby uh we're rolling in in a lot of money. So so therefore, we have to take advantage of uh what we've got, right? So there are a lot of free AIs out there. So again, I would like to say that AI is not a threat. The only threat that I see is uh those of us uh that are sitting on the fence, that are sitting on the sideline, um, that are afraid, that are not taking advantage of the opportunity available at this point uh to up their games, right? So AI uh also the other point is uh people say AI is going to replace us. Well, the only people that are going to be replaced is the following. By the way, when we talk about replace, that's a big word. Uh that's generalizing. Well, uh, you know, uh you have to be specific, right? Uh in the types of jobs that uh is being replaced. But yeah is also creating other jobs, better jobs that some of us, I mean most of us have not even thought about, right? The jobs of the future. Don't you see things are changing and they must change, right? Nothing stays the same. So you gotta change with time, you gotta move, flow with the time, right? So, but here's also the other point. You're brilliant. So AI is not here to replace your brilliance, but even as bright as you are, you can always accentuate, right? Scale up that brilliance. So we all can use a help, maybe from a critic, uh, someone to evaluate in, or family members looking into what we're doing to say, what can I possibly do to make it better? Right? And I'm saying that AI, the use of AI, the right type of AI, um, you know, can really be helpful. Um, by the way, here's the other point. Um, you need to start teaching your children how to utilize AI. You should not be afraid because very soon, as the way things are going, um, there is no industry that is not going to be integrated with some form of AI. Okay. So remember, AI, it's not here to replace your brilliance, it is here to amplify it, to sharpen your ideas, to scale up your impact, and unlock new direction across science, across storytelling, education, um, movement building. When we use AI, and when we prompt with intent with intention, we don't just use AI, we alter with it. We become part of the author, right? We become a co-author of whatever the idea is. Okay, we fine-tune a signal that we want to accentuate. It's kind of like uh listening to uh a radio station that all of a sudden starts becoming static y. What we want to do is we want to kind of what fine-tune okay, that signal, same kind of an idea. So it AI, the use of AI brings about clarity, resonance, and legacy. It brings it into uh a nice frame uh that can be beneficial not only uh to you uh but uh to your family and the community at large. This is your moment to reclaim the narrative, to use the AI to do something wonderful. This is your superpower, right? Uh, it's very important that you jump in the water, it's very important that you use AI uh not just as a shortcut, all right, um, but as a co-author or as a co-creator. Um remember AI is not here to erase your intuition, uh but but to translate your ideas into a framework others can build on. So I would like to encourage you, you don't need nobody's permission, right? So don't wait for permission. Uh use AI boldly, prompt boldly, build a legacy, and let AI be the tuning fork that help your truth rings louder than ever. I want to thank you um for listening to me. I was just thinking, uh I wanted to, you know, add this idea um of the use of AI and um and uh the use of prompting uh to create uh I so like uh remind everybody that that could be your superpower. Uh that please jump in the water, be part of the innovation, don't stand back. Uh do you have to use all the AIs that are out there? The answer is no. Find one or two or couples um that works for you, um, and and use it to the nth degree, right? Use it to the nth degree. Uh don't stand back, don't wait. Uh, because when you wait, guess what? Time doesn't wait for anyone, innovation doesn't wait for anyone. Um, and right now in our community, we have to start thinking about legacy. Um, we certainly don't want to leave our community the way we find it. We want to be making much better, at least set a foundation for those that are coming behind us to build on so that our community uh is productive, is healthy, and we are part of the innovation. We're moving with the time, uh, not playing a catch-up. Um so I hope this uh post uh resonates uh with you and with everyone. I I I know I I I uh you know I'm not savvy, but uh I I hope you can be like me. Uh you know, you have an idea, especially a good one. Share it with everyone so that everyone can benefit. Uh I hope you're well. Uh thank you so much for listening uh to me. I am Dr. Ayo Udofade. Until next time. Bye.