Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

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  • How to Outpace AI Lies: Building Conduits of Authenticity for Fast Crisis Response

    One of the concepts I share in my keynotes and courses is the conduit of authenticity. In an age when you can freely and easily use generative AI to manufacture ANYTHING, people will manufacture anything – including things damaging to you.

    If your internal processes are glacial – meaning it takes a week for someone in communications to talk to legal to elevate an issue to a stakeholder for an approval to respond, you’re toast. As the adage goes, a lie is halfway around the world while the truth is putting its shoes on.

    And a machine-generated lie that aligns with the beliefs people have? That’s going to spread like wildfire, unless you have conduits of authenticity.

    What are these? They’re people. People who work for you, people who publicly speak on your behalf all the time. Influencers who work for you (possibly you!) who are empowered to respond FAST. They’re people who can validate on your behalf whether something is real or not, and can marshal a response from you and your existing fans very, very quickly, hopefully putting out the fire before it spreads too far, too fast.

    And they’re out in public always. They’re not someone you trot out when the defecation impacts the ventilation. They’re in the communities you serve already, every day, building and maintaining relationships, listening carefully. They’ll be the first to know if someone’s using generative AI maliciously against you, because your fans will go to them first and say, “hey, is this real?”

    You need this capability now more than ever, when a single disgruntled employee, malicious competitor, or just a jerk decides to newsjack the hot button issue of the day and literally put words in your CEO’s mouth. And you need a playbook, assembled with your communications team and funded with ad dollars to spread word FAST, so that your firefighting efforts have air cover.

    You can’t wait to hire a PR agency or even call your PR agency. You have to build and grow these conduits of authenticity all the time, every day. Proactive, not reactive.

    Jay Baer talked last year about The Time to Win, where speed matters for sales and marketing. Add crisis communications in the generative AI age to that list – you have to be ready to outrace a lie.

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  • Why AI Shouldn’t Replace Your White Belt Skills in the Journey to Mastery

    You can’t become a black belt if you never practice white belt techniques.

    They’re basic. They can seem boring.

    Punch. Punch. Kick. Kick. Evade.

    But those white belt techniques become green belt techniques, become brown belt techniques, until one day, years after you’ve stepped through the door of the dojo for the first time, you put on your black belt.

    And what do you do after that?

    Punch. Punch. Kick. Kick. Evade.

    This is a legitimate concern with AI – that it will efficiently and effectively do the white belt techniques (metaphorically speaking). And many of the green belt techniques. Right now, some of the brown belt techniques. Not the black belt techniques, not yet, and not for a while.

    Today’s black belt knowledge workers, people who have been in their professions for years and decades, they have their black belts. They have their skills born from decades of punch, punch, kick, kick, evade. They can do complex accounting, write top tier content, analyze data, write code in skillful, sometimes unexpected ways that create differentiation.

    Today’s white belt and green belt knowledge workers are adopting AI, as they should be. The question is – and we do not have an answer yet, and will not for quite some time – whether that will impede their ability to be the same quality of black belt over time. They will have different skills, to be sure, but some foundational skills might not be as fully developed.

    Is that a reason not to use AI? No. Is that a reason to encourage knowledge workers to do things the old-fashioned, inefficient way? Maybe sometimes. Is that a reason to encourage knowledge workers to hone their craft, perhaps outside of work? Yes. Write fan fiction. Paint landscapes. Make music of your own. Do your household bills in a spreadsheet. Whatever your knowledge work domain is, practice the white belt skills even when you don’t have to, so that you can develop full, well-rounded black belt skills over time.

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  • How to Vote Like You’re Hiring a Contractor—Not Marrying a Politician

    I don’t do much talk publicly about politics because for the most part, it’s not helpful. Not online, anyway – over a cup of coffee, maybe.

    But I’ll explain how I think about politics.

    Electing public officials isn’t a marriage. I’m not looking for the perfect person.

    Electing public officials is basically hiring a contract employee. You get a bunch of resumes, and you try to figure out, with what’s in front of you, who is best suited for the job. You have to make a hire, and you may not be thrilled with the CVs in front of you, but you need to pick the closest match for the job.

    That’s it. That’s elections. Pick the best CV and make an offer – at the ballot box.

    Who should you pick? Again, pretty simple:

    1. Who best aligns with your goals? What outcomes do you care about?
    2. Who best aligns with your values? When someone achieves an outcome, how much do you care that they did it in the least harmful way possible?

    As with all things, be crystal clear and concrete about your outcomes. We do this all the time with SMART goals – specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time bound:

    • Maybe you want a minimum wage of X per hour for all full time employees over 30 hours per week by EOY 2026
    • Maybe you want corporate taxes to be reduced to 15% for corporations under 1 billion Euros in annual turnover by EOY 2025
    • Maybe you want equal marriage rights for LGBTQ+ folks codified in constitutional law by EOY 2027

    Likewise, be clear about your values, both positive and negative. Again, specifics matter:

    • Maybe you value honesty. A leader should be honest and forthright, even when they say something you don’t like.
    • Maybe you value humility. A leader should be humble before the people they serve, even at the expense of coming across as less confident.
    • Maybe you value hating a certain group of people. A leader should seek to eliminate that group of people by any legal means necessary.

    Write down the outcomes and values you care about. You would never hire someone without a job description in business, would you?

    I’m not telling you what to value, or what your goals should be. I am telling you to take a moment, close your screens, and think deeply about the outcomes you care about and the values you believe in, WRITE THEM DOWN, and then hire the people who best fit those values.

    You’re not marrying them, you’re not idolizing them, you’re hiring them. Make the best hiring decision you can with the CVs and resumes in front of you, for every elected official you vote for.

    And if you’re not sure? Turn your values and outcomes into a prompt for the generative AI tool of your choice and input your candidates’ position papers and other electoral guides, and ask generative AI to score which candidates most closely align with your values and outcomes.

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  • Is Generative AI the Right Tool for Every Job? A Reality Check for Tech Companies

    Not everything is a nail.

    But every tech company is running around with the hammer known as generative AI.

    Any good application of technology is about reducing friction, about getting to the best outcome as quickly, cheaply, and correctly as possible.

    Sometimes, that’s generative AI. When you’re dealing with something that requires a lot of reasoning, understanding, complexity, and language, that’s a great use case for it.

    Sometimes, that’s 100% not generative AI. When you want to find a nearby sushi place that’s open, you don’t need a 15 minute conversation with a language model about it. You need a pin on a map and walking directions.

    There are so, so, so many use cases where generative AI is just the flat out wrong answer. Like math.

    The caution here to everyone is that generative AI isn’t a magic wand. Language models excel at language tasks. Image models excel at image tasks. Multimodal models are okay-ish right now at multimodal tasks. But there are whole huge categories of tasks that are mostly symbolic in nature that generative AI is as good a choice for as a blender is for cooking a steak.

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  • How Adversarial AI Systems Are Making Generative AI Safer for Business Use

    It is becoming clear that generative AI exposed to the public must be an adversarial system. From jailbreaks to prompt injection to inherent bias in the models themselves, there is no model on the market today that can be put into customer-facing production, as is, with no supervision. None. Not GPT-5, not Gemini, not WatsonX, not LLaMa 4, nothing.

    However, there is a path forward for customer-facing generative AI: adversarial systems. Meta just updated theirs, called LLaMa Guard, which runs in parallel to any other model. Its role is to supervise the outputs and reject them if they violate a set of provided rules.

    What’s good about adversarial systems is that the supervising model is NOT exposed to the public. It’s like the call center manager listening in on a customer service call. You don’t speak to the manager (at first, anyway, and in an AI system you never will) but the manager keeps the call center rep on the rails.

    That’s what an adversarial model does. It’s a smaller, more efficient model that’s constantly looking at the output of the customer-facing model and saying, “hey, is this racist? is this sexist? is this sharing data it shouldn’t be?” and when it thinks it sees something, it sends it back to the original model to try again.

    Now, there are two downsides to this approach:

    1. It’s slower. You’re basically using 2 AI models instead of 1.
    2. It’s more energy intensive, because again, you’re using 2 AI models instead of 1.

    But if model safety, if AI safety is important to you, that will be the cost of doing business. And you might even have a third model to deal with more subtle issues as well; that’s what architectures like AutoGen are really good at – again, with the tradeoff of compute time and cost.

    Adversarial systems are what will nudge generative AI into much wider use at the company level, because they’re much less risky when implemented correctly.

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  • How to Leverage AI as Your Silent Sales Assistant (Before It Works Against You)

    Whether you want them to or not, whether it’s even right or not, people are asking large language models questions about your business.

    And you have no visibility into this. “Hey ChatGPT, compare pricing Salesforce, HubSpot, and Zoho CRM for a company of 50 employees and annual revenue of about $50 million per year. Assume 10 users, and give me pricing per user.”

    The shortlist has been made. Did you know you were on it? Did you know you weren’t on it?

    What do you do when, as Andy Crestodina pointed out recently, search moves into AI because AI delivers a better user experience?

    “But it’s factually wrong!” The user doesn’t care. The state of politics alone should tell us that facts are less and less relevant to people’s decisions. And the shortlist that used to take the junior person on the team 8 hours to build can be built in 5 minutes with generative AI. Which route will that junior person take – 8 hours of mind-numbing labor, or 5 minutes?

    So how do you prepare for this future? Speed and presence. Jay Baer talks about speed. You HAVE to be the first to respond, especially in a world where AI responds for you a good amount of the time. And you have to be everywhere all the time, because the very largest, most capable AI models tend to train on quantity more than quality.

    The world of buying is changing. Sales is changing. And AI is the silent buyer assistant that more people are using. Do your best to have it help you instead of hinder you.

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  • Can You Really Trust AI-Generated Content? The Truth About Watermarks and Authenticity

    Proving content authenticity is going to be a matter of lineage.

    Here’s what I mean. AI companies in consumer interfaces are adding things like watermarks & fingerprints.

    But when you dig into the architecture, these artifacts are added AFTER the generation. If you use the actual models themselves, these fingerprints are not part of the generation.

    Which means that you have to trust that users will allow systems to add watermarks. If it’s a malicious actor, the likelihood of that is… low.

    Take something like the C2PA image certification standard. It’s a system that injects metadata into images that says where the image came from. Platforms like ChatGPT add this data into the image’s metadata.

    It’s also trivial to remove or redact because it’s not part of the image itself. No AI image model can create any kind of watermark in the image itself. None. It’s not how diffuser models work.

    The same is true for text generation. In clumsy prompts, it’s easy to tell that a piece of text was AI-generated. “In summary, this article delved into…” But today’s state of the art models, with talented prompting, can write in nearly any style, and claims that text can be fingerprinted are mostly hype.

    So how do you know what’s authentic? Well, you don’t, except by old-fashioned detective work.

    1. Is the information published by the source? I saw a post attributed to Celine Dion the other day. I checked her official account and to my surprise, it was actually from her.
    2. Is the information available across multiple, disparate sources? A photo can be generated. Lots of photos and videos from professional and amateur sources is much harder to stage.
    3. Is the creation of the content documented? Someone showing the making of content in a series of videos or better, a livestream, is proving the lineage of the content.

    As AI tools advance, assume that if someone doesn’t present lineage in some fashion, it may not be true.

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  • Mastering Vibe Coding: How to Get Better AI-Generated Code Every Time

    How do you vibe code?

    First coined by OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy, vibe coding (aka prompting AI to write code for you) has become all the rage.

    Yet people who try it get… not great results a fair amount of the time. Why? Why does it look so easy for someone like Karpathy and then you try it and it fails spectacularly?

    Because there’s a ton of implicit knowledge not being discussed. For example, Karpathy’s a coder. A lot of his best practices just live in his head, so he knows the specific jargon and language to use.

    Non-coders don’t necessarily have that language. As with all AI, if you don’t know what to ask for, you’re going to have a difficult time getting what you want.

    This is something Katie Robbert talks about ALL the time. New tech doesn’t solve old problems, and best practices from “old tech” still apply to new things.

    Here’s an example; these are 2 of the lines in my coding standards:

    • We adhere to coding principles like DRY, SPOT, SOLID, GRASP, and YAGNI
    • Avoid deeply nested logic; a maximum of two levels of indentation for loops and conditionals is preferred. Refactor using techniques like guard clauses to reduce nesting.

    AI knows what these terms mean. Coders know what these terms mean (or should). Non-coders don’t know the inside baseball needed to guide AI as well.

    To give you a sense of the infrastructure needed to vibe code well, this is my setup and flow:

    • Load custom system instructions that I built
    • Load custom coding standards that AI has to adhere to
    • Load custom debugging practices (VUWs) that AI must follow
    • Load custom Cline rules and workflows that mirror how I think about code
    • Build a product requirements document with GenAI in a big model
    • Build a file-by-file workplan with GenAI in a big model
    • Execute the plan in VSCodium with Cline in a small model (saves $$$)
    • Use custom tooling to execute code tests (ruff, mypy, pytest most often)
    • Use custom tooling to sew up results and give back to the big model
    • Build debugging plans with GenAI in a big model
    • Execute debugging plans in VSCodium/Cline in a small model

    Could you just hand this off to a coding agent entirely? Sure. You could just hand your code or idea to a coding agent and hope for the best. But 9 times out of 10, you’re going to get spaghetti back, loaded down with technical debt.

    By adhering to a solid process, we keep AI on the rails, supervised, and far more likely to generate a usable product.

    Vibe coding, like all generative AI efforts, works better if you have subject matter expertise or access to it. At a bare minimum, if you’re vibe coding, go to the AI tool of your choice and ask for a deep research report on best practices for the language you’re working in. You’ll thank me later.

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  • How Generative AI and Automation Work Together to Supercharge Your Workflow

    AI and automation are not the same thing.

    Especially when we’re talking generative AI. By definition, generative AI is about generating, about creating something.

    Automation is about taking a task and finding a way for a machine to do that task for you.

    Now, are there tasks that generative AI automates? To a degree, yes. If you write a LinkedIn post every day, and you have generative AI write it instead, then you’ve more or less automated that particular task (Whether it’s a good idea or not is a separate question).

    But where automation shines is not where generative AI shines. Automation shines at SCALE. Write a thousand LinkedIn posts. Write a million LinkedIn posts. Exceed what human ability can do because we’re just not built to scale like that.

    And this is where most people are not getting the true benefit of generative AI. It’s a component of a workflow, but not the whole workflow, not if we want to leverage its full power. As the saying goes, it’s part of the nutritious breakfast, but not all of it. (amusing side note, those pictures of nutritious breakfasts could have omitted the cereal entirely and increased in nutritional value)

    Here’s a concrete example. Suppose I have an ideal customer profile (ICP). Suppose I have a blog. I can use generative AI to read my ICP, read my blog post, and tell me how well that blog post aligns with my ICP. Generative AI’s understanding of language empowers that ability; it can read a lot more text quickly than we can, understand it, and apply it to a specific task.

    But that’s not automation. Automation is wrapping that generative AI model and prompt in a piece of code, a script that evaluates your whole blog, every single post. That scale is what makes automation powerful and productive.

    Katie and I did that not too long ago. Using the Gemma-27B model from Google, custom code, the ICP Katie built, and a fairly complex prompt, we evaluated the content strategy for Trust Insights for SIX YEARS of content to see how well we’re aligned with what our ideal customer values. From beginning to end, the process took 6 hours, most of which was waiting for the model to process 1,400 pieces of content.

    That’s what it looks like when you combine AI and automation together. You take technology that inherently has superhuman abilities (AI) and magnify that with scale (automation). If you’re not seeing value from AI yet, consider whether you’re trying to apply it at sufficient scale.

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  • Unlocking AI’s True Potential: How Collaboration Between Domain Experts and AI Specialists Creates Game-Changing Use Cases

    People need to see use cases to understand a new technology.

    People who understand the technology often don’t have the domain expertise, so it’s difficult to create the use case.

    That’s why so many of the use cases you see publicly for generative AI are so… mundane. Write some blog posts. Write some emails. Write some social posts.

    That’s like flying a Harrier to the grocery store. Yes, it will do that, but it’s capable of so much more.

    So how do you overcome this paradox? It’s not technology – it’s collaboration.

    Recently, for example, we’ve been working on aligning our content strategy with our Trust Insights ideal customer profile (ICP). I have Katie as my domain expert on who our customers are (and who we want them to be). Katie has me as the resident AI expert. I wrote some code that takes our ICP and pushes our entire blog, post by post, into a generative model, scores it based on how well aligned it is with our ICP, and then returns the data for analysis.

    What do we get from that data? An understanding of how well aligned our current content is to our ideal customer. Are we creating useful, helpful content for them?

    Is our content strategy getting more or less aligned over time with our ICP?

    Are there certain content types, like our podcast, livestream, or newsletter, which are on average a better fit to our ICP?

    What’s critical is that I, the technologist, had Katie’s expert advice on who our ICP is, as well as her expertise to validate 5 different models. We evaluated Llama 3.1 8B, Llama 3.1 70B, Mistral Nemo 12B, Cohere Command-R 35B, and Gemma 2 27B against our content and our keyword list to see which model most closely adhered to our expert opinions.

    Could I have done that by myself as a technologist? Maybe. But we get a better result through collaboration.

    You’ll note that we’re not using generative AI to create content here. We’re using it as an expert evaluator to judge our existing content, based on criteria we specify. It would take a human days to read through over 1,400 blog posts with our ICP in mind. This project will be done in less than half a day.

    Domain expert + AI expert = unlocking the power of AI.

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