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AI Won't Take Your Job: How Entrepreneurs Can Leverage AI for Success | TSG Podcast
Is AI Really Coming for Your Job?
In this myth-busting episode of the TSG Podcast, host Adam Feuerstein flips the script on AI fear-mongering and reveals the extraordinary opportunities this technology presents for entrepreneurs.
Citing World Economic Forum data showing that AI will create 170 million new jobs while displacing only 92 million, Adam makes a compelling case for embracing—rather than fearing—this technological revolution. He also shares practical strategies for leveraging AI in business operations, including a personal example of how AI reduced his podcast prep time from 16 hours to just 15 minutes.
The TSG mission centers on democratizing AI—keeping this powerful utility accessible to everyone, not just concentrated in the hands of a few. This approach ensures the technology remains beneficial for all entrepreneurs, regardless of size or resources.
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AI is coming. It's ruthless, relentless and it's gunning for your job, or is it? Today, we're tearing down the fear of your future with AI. Welcome to the podcast today. This is the Total Sum Game. I'm your host, Adam Fierstein, and we're taking head on today the real impact of AI as we move into the future. You've been told many things and many things have not all been true. We want to put this into better perspective and turn fear into a positive mindset and an understanding of huge, monumental opportunity for every one of us moving forward. In today's episode, we're going to tackle the fear of AI. We're going to realize what the true opportunity is and that the fact is, the future for us, the future for humanity, holds more prosperity than it ever has in any point in history. You know, here at TSC we're all about helping entrepreneurs. We're here to help assist, provide guidance and powerful utility to entrepreneurs starting their business or starting a new part of their business where they integrate AI into their operations. We see the prosperity in this technology and we also understand it's not going anywhere. It's not going anywhere for anybody. Truth is, there's more opportunity now than ever. At the end of this episode, check out TSG totalsomegamecom and see about taking a class for yourself on what you think you might be able to learn and how you might be able to harness this technology to bring prosperity to you and your family.
Speaker 1:I understand how scary this topic can be for some people. There's rumors abound, there's news stories seemingly every 10 minutes, talking about the fear of the impact of AI to all of us, in particularly to us professionally, and our abilities to create resource for ourselves and provide for our families. It is going to change, and change is always a little bit scary and I completely understand. But the truth of the matter is we've just got to look a little bit deeper. Just push away some of this. Well, I'm just going to call it what it is it's propaganda about the and this fear mongering over this technology. We've seen this kind of the guys my age or older have seen this before, right, and we saw it when the internet was coming along. We were told that automation was going to take away everything and that the internet was going to replace, you know, good old-fashioned American work ethic and the future was going to be a totally different future than anything we had ever thought of before. But those aren't the facts. It's just simply categorically false. Truth of the matter is, this is a utility to humanity the likes of which we've never seen before.
Speaker 1:It's part of our mission here at TSG to keep this technology to the masses and ensure that it never becomes held by a concentrated group of people. This is important because I believe deeply that when you keep anything, and certainly technology, power, wealth, whatever democratized, meaning accessible to everybody, that it stays benevolent, it stays in the best interest of humanity. A lot of times these kind of things, as powerful as AI is, only become corrupt because they get concentrated to a very small group of people. That concentrates that power, and that power almost invariably not completely, but almost invariably throughout history corrupts. But this, this in particular, has started out slightly differently. It started out, of course, in the very beginning. It was a very expensive resource, so only big corporations and wealthy people had access to it, but it very quickly became democratized. Now the trick is to keep it that way, and the reason for it is because we want everybody to benefit. So when my wife and I got together to start this company, that was the ideological perspective that we started from is keep this technology in the hands of the people so that those who choose to always have it to a way to create social impact or wealth or whatever it is that they want to do with their lives. This brings that closer to them, brings it closer to you. It's closer for all of us.
Speaker 1:What's interesting is, fear sells. We all know that right. So clickbait is always based on some kind of fear Not always, but largely is based on fear, and certainly newsreels and things like that are always based on fear. I never noticed that every single story is somehow breaking news, as though the sky is preparing to fall and you better hurry up and understand it so that hopefully in some way you survive. I mean, really, if you really sit back and pay attention, it's almost that dramatic. I guess I'm embellishing a little bit, but I understand that, and especially with something new. Some people this technology isn't new, but to many, many people it is new and so it's scary. Right, and that makes perfect sense. But the truth of the matter is as precise as so many media groups have tried to target that fear nerve in all of us. That the truth is.
Speaker 1:There's several statistics and I mean very powerful statistics that are predicting exactly the opposite. I have one here for you. Here's an example the World Economic Forum's 2025 Future of Jobs Report has found that AI may displace as many as 92 million jobs. Right, that's a scary statistic. Until you hear the second statistic. The same report predicts 170 million new jobs will be created as a result of the technology by 2030. So AI displaces 92 million and creates 170170 million.
Speaker 1:I'll give you a minute to think on that. I know that's contrary to what so many of us hear on a day-to-day basis. That drum has been beat again and again and again, and again and again, but those are the facts. It's the basis for why the future and AI's impact on the economic future for really the entire planet is actually pretty bright economically speaking. So when you say that versus fear of everybody losing their job, we have to realize something If everybody loses their job, there's nobody to buy products, right? So that's really the case. There shouldn't be any positive prospecting going on in any market in the world because everything is about to collapse. The truth of the matter is the opposite is occurring. These statistics support that. The truth is we know in the future, there'll not only be more prosperity, but there's going to be a lot more jobs as well. I know that's contradictory to so many things that we've heard, but really think about that and I encourage you to do your own research and take a look at this from your perspective. But the truth is, the trick to all of this is that we do what the TSG has set out to do, and that is, keep it democratized. And that's what we're going to do today and that's why we want to defeat the fear of this technology as it emerges more and more into our everyday lives and certainly impacts our professional life.
Speaker 1:So imagine AI comes along and it replaces, say, a train-the-trainer type. I've worked at a large corporation for a very short period of time and they had a trainer who was responsible for training the other trainers who was responsible for teaching, essentially like the field operators, right. So AI comes along and replaces that gentleman In this case it was a gentleman, right. What happens is the opportunity there is. Those classes become more uniform, more effective, more and they're in this case they were training, largely safety measures because it was construction. They become more consistent. Ai sits back and monitors the outcome, measures, the safety and the performance of the business, of the company, and finds even more effective ways every single time it's used by the people inside that company. Now the trainer, the head trainer, might even, in that case, be out of that particular job, but he gets trained in AI. He gets a whole new resource, a whole new way, a whole new skill by working with AI from that perspective. So he then becomes the guy who creates the AI initiatives, that start the programs, that train the other people, he monitors it, he creates reports from it, and not only can he do this for one company, he can do this for a multitude of companies, because once that program is established, he can repeat it again and again and again. So he loses his job per se in this particular scenario, but he learns from that experience. Instead of running away and being bitter at the technology that replaced his employment, he puts himself in a position where he can leverage that same technology, provide the same service, and do it on a much larger scale. This is how we go from losing $92 million jobs to creating $170 million.
Speaker 1:Think about that. What an incredible utility this access to collective human wisdom To entrepreneurs. It's incredible. Imagine I can only imagine in my first business if I would have had a resource like this where I could model things out. I could interact with something that has infinitely more knowledge than I do, infinite more access to history Essentially, experience that I lacked. I was 26 or 27, I think. When I started my first company man, I didn't know anything. I had a master electrician's license and that was it, and had to jump into the industry and sink or swim and it was painful and it's hard, extremely hard. To those of you who are out there right now and they're in that struggle, you know there's a utility here. Don't be afraid of it, embrace it, go to it, see how you can use it. Don't be you won't be enslaved by this anymore than you're enslaved by a screwdriver or a hammer in your toolbox, but rather use it to put yourself into a position where you can become successful faster than you ever thought imaginable for because you have access to the collective wisdom that comes from all the other people's experience.
Speaker 1:People ask me many times how do I know about business? I didn't go to business college. I don't have any formal business training at all. What I used to tell people is I learned through prison sex, and of course they look at you and wonder what you did to end up in prison. I've never been to prison in my entire life. But I have been screwed against my will a lot, and that's what I mean in that kind of silly little metaphor. That's how I had to learn right by trying something, failing at it and having to pay the consequence.
Speaker 1:If I'd had something like this, where I could have told it, talked to it, utilized it as an experiment before I actually engaged in whatever that activity was a new project, a new job, a new employee, a new cost item, a new revenue stream, whatever it was or whatever it could be and model that out and get feedback from essentially collective wisdom, man, the amount of pain I could have avoided and the way I could have accelerated into success, I can't even imagine. And that's the opportunity that we have today. To me, that doesn't sound like fear. To me, that sounds like looking down into something that we don't know about and figuring out how to master it. Isn't that what we do as entrepreneurs? We come up with an idea, we put a business together A lot of us are good at a craft or a trade or a skill or something and then we try to formulate a business around it and we're left to have to figure out how to do that. Accounts payable, receivables, books, taxes I mean all that stuff right? Operations scheduling do I do? Task management? Do I do project management? So on and so forth, especially as our companies grow.
Speaker 1:Imagine being able to harness almost endless experience in every single one of those exercises and get feedback as to how successful that may be, what the pitfalls are, accurately measure the risk, put all that information together and then figure out how to invest our time in those things. You guys are out there on the grind. I love it. I've done it time and time again and I still love it to this day and I don't think I'll ever get tired of it. The ins and the outs, and the meeting here and drive over there and talk to this person and network with that person, and five Zoom calls a day, all that stuff.
Speaker 1:Imagine everything that you do, speaking far more focused, speaking far more directly to the end. You're trying to create your own success, limiting the amount of failure that you have to engage in in order to learn. It's very powerful to think of that way and nothing to fear. I mean, what an exciting time to be an entrepreneur, if you ask me. So what do we do to engage? This Number one. We learn the basics right, log into a large language model, set up a subscription, start talking.
Speaker 1:What's interesting in this kind of technology is you formulate prompts right, and sometimes those prompts need to be rather scientific that's a fact. But the basic stuff doesn't Common sense. Talk to it, go in and engage it. Come at it from the perspective that this is a utility and you're trying to figure out the best way to use it. No different than if I got a new tool today and it's sophisticated enough, but I don't know everything that it does. But I want to find out.
Speaker 1:An example of that is to identify your edge. What is it about what you're doing, whether it's physically what you're doing, the craft that you're applying or just your incredible passion for pursuing it. What is that edge? How do you verbalize that edge? How do you put together A lot of guys, new in business. You know they tell you about the elevator pitches. You know how do you formulate that. Have that conversation back and forth, but it isn't like you're listening to this thing. It's not demanding of you. It's not taking over your own process of thinking. It's feedback. It's a conversation with a wise friend. See it as such, leverage it. That's what we do in business, right Create an asset, create a resource and we leverage it. Next step upskill strategically.
Speaker 1:There are huge limitations to this technology. Right the human element, for example, the emotional intelligence, they say. When you're sitting in a room communicating with the other person, even if it's just one other person, the vast majority of communication is nonverbal. When you're dealing with an interface that's computer-based or machine-based, you're not getting that. It's far, far more literal than that. Understand what that creates in terms of opportunity for you and understand specifically how to get the most out of that information. That's so literal. Use the human element, your own creativity, your own critical thinking to apply that information. Use the human element, your own creativity, your own critical thinking to apply that information and add the human element to it so that it makes it more relatable to others. That will make you more successful. Don't be afraid to experiment. There's no right or wrong way to do this. Have the courage to go into it and see what you can get out of it. Don't limit your thinking and certainly don't think from fear. Go in unbridled, expecting this technology to be able to help you in ways that you can't yet imagine and that it will not let you down. You'll discover that and when you do, each step will become more and more powerful.
Speaker 1:Real world personal example of one of the things I've learned to do with it. I used to really kind of put a tremendous amount of effort. It took a lot of time literally take me five or six hours sometimes to prepare for a single podcast. Going through researching my guests Back when we had more guests than we do now. We're a little bit more focused today, but we used to host guests all the time. We have guests intermittently now. I'd have gone through the research, go to their social media pages, maybe set up a pre-interview, a meet and greet, all this stuff and sometimes maybe even 10, 12, 16 hours invested in just a single podcast, just learning about my guests and trying to formulate right questions, the right understanding, put them in the right environment, know how to support them. There's a tremendous amount of that.
Speaker 1:Today I go in the same way brand new guest, even if it's somebody I've only heard through reputation or met temporarily and feel comfortable about having into our studio. I go into an AI, I go into a large language model, I state their name, I cut and paste links into their social media platforms and I ask AI to go out and help give me an outline. I don't ask AI to write me a script and tell me how to talk to this person, because I want to explore them personally, but what I ask AI to do is give me topical questions to help open the door, to ease them into the conversation, to let them know that it's okay, let them be comfortable, open them up so that we can really explore what's going on with them and get down into the marrow of what they're here for. And I can do all that sometimes in as little as 15 minutes. So think about that a richer, better human experience because of the information that I prepare myself with ahead of time. That doesn't sound like anything to be afraid of to me. That sounds like a way to better communicate, to better get to know and to better support the people that are supporting us. It's amazing. So here it is in a nutshell.
Speaker 1:The truth of the matter is, some people will lose their job, but AI's intention is not to take your job. Ai's intention is to assist humanity. It's our job to embrace it, keep it democratized and make sure that this technology stays to the benefit and under the control of humanity. Right now, in the beginning stages and we know this is when most prosperity is abound we haven't figured it all out. There's loose ends, there's questions, things that need to be done, experiments that need to be made, conclusions that need to be drawn and then experimented again against. This is that time frame, it's right here, right now.
Speaker 1:So we encourage you, from TSG to everybody listening, embrace this and see what you can do with it, see how you can master this to the point that it serves you, serves your community, your friends, your family, whatever your situation is. So if you're ready, it can be overwhelming. A good first step is join us at TotalSumGame TotalSumGamecom. You can check out our classes, get a better understanding of how you can get a taste of this technology and how you can actually find educational courses that we provide to truly help you navigate from day one never having even signed into chat GPT, for example all the way into implementing it into your entrepreneurial ventures. We invite you to come along. We invite you to join us at Totalsome Game.
Speaker 1:So next time you hear that AI is taking jobs, I want you to come along. We invite you to join us at Total Sum Game. So next time you hear that AI is taking jobs, I want you to remember not just the underlying message here, not just the subliminal communication, but the idea of prosperity. Keep that number in your head 170 million new jobs, while only 92 are disrupted. Think about the money, the resource and the opportunity that the difference in those two numbers represent. I invite you to let go of your fear, embrace this future and find out how this technology can best be mastered and best serve you and your family. Thanks again for joining us at TSG. We'll talk to you soon.