Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

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  • Why AI Can’t Replace Expertise (And Why That’s a Good Thing)

    AI is not a substitute for expertise.

    I recently posted about how I dropped out of the stock market for a while and recommended that other people talk to their qualified financial advisors and experts because I am not one.

    Can generative AI evaluate the data you give it? Absolutely.

    Can it draw impressive conclusions, especially from large amounts of data? Unquestionably.

    Can it make subtle mistakes that a non-expert will miss? ALL THE TIME.

    My definition of an expert is someone who knows what will go wrong and how to prevent or mitigate the situation when it does go wrong.

    Anyone can look great when things are going well.

    We separate the wheat from the chaff when it all goes to 💩.

    But that requires humility, and AI tends to do the opposite in us. It creates a false sense of confidence, a false sense of ownership when it comes to knowledge, much in the same way traditional search did when it came out 30 years ago.

    Why? Because expertise often is about edge cases, which inherently means there’s less data for AI to train on.

    Here’s a simple example: ask AI about making an egg substitute and give it a list of ingredients like pea protein isolate, etc. It will do a credible job of the analysis and attempt to synthesize an answer.

    But if you don’t provide the varying compositions of egg yolk and egg white for it to synthesize separately (and ESPECIALLY the water volume of each), it will basically generate a nasty, starchy, mashed potato-like substance every single time.

    If you know nothing about food science, you might accept the answer it gives. It sounds credible. If you know the basics, it looks credible. But when you dig into the details, there are subtle mistakes that it gets wrong – and those mistakes add up.

    There is still no substitute for human expertise, from knowing what will go wrong. Our brains are WIRED for this. You can’t remember every good meal you’ve had, but you definitely remember some of the worst ones.

    AI is the most helpful intern you’ve ever had. Don’t ask the intern to do the Ph.D.’s job.

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  • 5 Game-Changing Google I/O Announcements Marketers Need to Know Now

    Out of all the announcements at Google I/O yesterday, which do we care about as marketers?

    1. AI mode is basically LLM-based “search”. You have a full, regular chat – which means regular search results are gone. For now, it’s a tab in Google search results. The Google team said they’ll migrate features to the core results at some point.

    Why we are: goodbye 10 blue links. And goodbye organic search traffic if you’re not the handful of results cited.

    1. Jules and agentic coding are eating everything. Between OpenAI Codex and Jules, it’s blatantly obvious that the primary commercial use case for GenAI at scale is generating code. The tools are great at it.

    Why we care: the upside is that you can make any piece of software you want. The downside is that if you’re a SaaS business, your software offers no intrinsic value. The ecosystem you build around your software is where your value is.

    1. Deep Research allows file uploads. This is by far the biggest announcement for me, because it allows us to provide our own data sources as part of Deep Research.

    Why we care: if you’ve used, for example, the Trust Insights ICP Generation service (link in the comments) you can now provide an ICP as part of a Deep Research project, dramatically refining the results.

    1. Media generation off the rails. The demos of Veo 3, Imagen 4, and Lyria are incredibly good, and usable today in the supporte regions. Veo 3 is the model the film industry has been afraid of because it’s well within the uncanny valley.

    Why we care: Veo 3 offers something no other model offers right now – the ability to create audio in sync with the video. That’s a HUGE deal.

    Tip of the hat to Android XR, which is Google Glass done somewhat better.

    Taken together, Google I/O wasn’t an AI-first announcements show. It was an AI-only show. If you’d taken a shot every time someone said the word Gemini, you would have expired of alcohol poisoning 7 minutes in.

    The tools will change how we work, not because you’re going to spring for Google’s obnoxiously priced $249/month Ultra package, but because the different things they revealed, the rest of the AI industry will copy. Diffuser LLMs have been in existence in theory, but having Gemini start to implement them gives motivation to labs like Alibaba and DeepSeek to roll their own (and in many cases, give them away for free).

    Gemini 2.5 is currently the best performing model on the market, but it won’t stay that way. A raft of new models is already on the horizon, from DeepSeek R2 to OpenAI o4. As Ethan Mollick is fond of saying, today is the worst, lowest quality AI you will ever use.

    What should you do as a marketer? Get familiar with the new tools, and lock in on the Trust Insights ABCs of mitigating AI impact.

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  • **”Is Your AI Data at Risk? Why Local Models May Be the Safest Choice for Privacy”**

    Let’s talk a bit more about AI data privacy for a minute.

    Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. I cannot give legal advice. Seek a qualified lawyer in your jurisdiction for legal advice specific to your situation.

    Someone asked me recently when I was advocating for local AI models if I was concerned about a data leak from companies like Google or OpenAI. I’m not as concerned about that as I am about intentional leakage.

    Here’s what I mean. Suppose you’re working with data like driver’s licenses or federal and state grants. Maybe you’re helping college students fill out financial aid applications. Those are all great use cases for AI.

    Could the federal government just ask Google et. al. for that data? Maybe. On March 20, 2025, Executive Order 14243 was issued that contained this text:

    “Immediately upon execution of this order, Agency Heads shall take all necessary steps, to the maximum extent consistent with law, to ensure the Federal Government has unfettered access to comprehensive data from all State programs that receive Federal funding, including, as appropriate, data generated by those programs but maintained in third-party databases.”

    (citation in the comments to the original)

    Read that carefully in two parts.

    1. “Ensure the federal government has unfettered access to comprehensive data from all State programs that receive federal funds.”

    The reality is that an incredible number of State programs receive federal funds. Driver’s licenses? Federally funded in part by USDOT and NHTSA. Financial aid of any kind? Department of Education grants. Health data? CDC and HHS grants.

    1. “including, as appropriate, data generated by those programs but maintained in third-party databases.”

    This is an INCREDIBLY broad, vague statement. Read it carefully.

    Data generated by those programs but maintained in third-party databases.

    Your prompts and your responses, including your data, are logged and stored by every cloud AI provider, without exception. They may not be used to train models, but every single one stores your data at least for a period of time in case you violate the terms of service.

    Which means the federal government could simply ask Google, OpenAI, etc. for access to data generated by federal and state programs (it’s incredibly ambiguous) like SSNs (federally generated), driver’s licenses (state generated), etc. And the big tech companies, saddled with mega-million dollar government contracts, are almost certainly not going to decline the request.

    Is that the intent of the executive order? Maybe, maybe not. It’s incredibly vague. Could it be interpreted that way as a pretext to take user data without needing a warrant? Sure could.

    When you use local AI models, you can turn your Internet off and they function. You can process all your data inside your network, maybe even on just one machine, depending on the model, and there is no data transferred, no records stored in a third party’s systems that could be requested by the government.

    The bottom line is this: if you are working with any kind of protected information, private information, you should be using local AI models hosted within your infrastructure if maximum privacy is your concern.

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  • How AI Can Help You Analyze Political Documents for Accountability and Impact

    Warning! Politics ahead!

    One of the things you should be using AI for all the time is politics.

    Not the third-rate drama you see on TV screens, but the substance of politics – legislative pieces, executive orders, and court judgements. Those are the documents that will impact your life in some fashion.

    What should you be doing with them? Regardless of party or point of view, you should be asking AI:

    • To summarize what the document is and what its key points are
    • To summarize the impacts and effects
    • To predict second order effects
    • To identify how any law, order, or judgement could be weaponized by an unethical government to discriminate against a part of a population, if at all
    • To identify how any law, order, or judgement could be weaponized by an unethical government to purge ‘disloyal’ officials, if at all
    • To identify loopholes in the law, order, or judgement that could be used by an unethical government official to misuse public resources, if at all

    This, by the way, is essentially the prompt you could use, along with providing a role and contextual information for wherever it is you live.

    This works best with reasoning models like OpenAI o1, Gemini Flash Thinking, Deepseek Reasoning, and similar models. You’ll note that it’s as apolitical as I can make it, because every government and every official across the political spectrum should be held accountable to the same standard.

    This also short circuits the news hype cycle. Instead of listening to pundits with their own agendas, take the document in question with the AI of your choice and a prompt like the one above, and get a firsthand analysis with today’s AI tools. They’re absolutely fantastic at doing this kind of analysis and summarization.

    Accountability begins with understanding, and understanding requires time for analysis. AI dramatically shortens that time so that you can see what a law, order, or judgement means and take action on it.

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  • 30% of Tasks Will Disappear by 2030—Here’s How to Future-Proof Your Career

    Say goodbye to at least 30% of tasks.

    The World Economic Forum’s latest 290-page whopper, The Future of Jobs Report, had this rather stunning graphic.

    It shows:
    – Today, 47% of tasks are human only
    – 30% are human/machine hybrid
    – 22% are machine only

    By 2030, according to their survey:
    – 33% of tasks will be human only, a 29.8% decline
    – 33% will be human/machine hybrid, a 10% increase
    – 34% will be machine only, a 54% increase

    And who’s exposed to the greatest risks, in terms of machine substitution by generative AI?

    • Skills involving reading, writing, and mathematics
    • Marketing and media
    • Systems thinking
    • Multilingualism
    • Programming
    • (plus AI itself, as agentic AI consumes more of AI overall)

    What does this mean for you?

    Now is the time to get good at this stuff. Your time horizon for skilling up is very short, competition for jobs will increase, and jobs in the most exposed areas will decrease.

    The clock is ticking. 2030 sounds like a long time away, but it’s 5 years away. And I think these estimates are too conservative, given the pace of announcements and advancements in just the last year alone. I’d be willing to bet a decent sum that this is more like 2 years away.

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  • How to Get Better AI Results: The Secret Behind Precise, Step-by-Step Prompts

    Generative AI needs to talk.

    This is generally accepted advice – that to get the best results out of large language models like the ones that power ChatGPT, they need to talk things out. Of the dozens of prompt engineering techniques that exist, moer than half fall into the category of chain of thought, which is fancy for talking things out step by step.

    Ok, but why?

    Fundamentally, language models are word guessing machines. That’s a gross oversimplification, but it’s not wrong, just imprecise.

    What that means is that every word in a conversation adds to how the model predicts the next word. (that’s the attention mechanism, part of the transformers architecture)

    You can’t see this in consumer interfaces like ChatGPT, but when you start getting down and dirty with your own AI servers and instances, you can see every word and the model’s decisions about how good a prediction it is, and what the other choices are.

    The more relevant, specific words you use in a conversation, from start to finish, the easier it is for the model to predict what the next words should be.

    Here’s a simple example. What are the next two words in this sentence?

    “God save”

    The first word alone isn’t enough to guess what the rest of the sentence will be. But if you’re at all knowledgeable about British culture, there are two basic options, God save the King, and God save the Queen.

    This is a super-simplified example of what’s going on behind the scenes.

    Here’s the key takeaway: if you’re not getting good results from AI, it’s because your prompts likely are imprecise or too short. When I do marketing strategy analysis with AI, I use pages of information about a company, Katie Robbert’s Ideal Customer Profile system, and screenshots of analytics dashbords. It’s not uncommon for a prompt to be 15-20 pages long, densely packed with relevant information.

    When you provide a ton of relevant information, what comes back from an AI model is so hyper-specific, it’s like having a personal advisor or coach talking specifically to you, about you, and what you can do better.

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  • How to Test New AI Models Like a Pro: Create Your Own Benchmarks for Smarter Decisions

    “A new AI thing has appeared!”

    This sort of announcement is an almost daily occurrence in the world of AI and a major contributor to people feeling overwhelmed and exhausted.

    Here’s one way to deal with that: have your own tests.

    This is something I deal with a lot in the use of open models (ones you download). There are, as of this morning, 1,803,158 open models in generative AI, with about a thousand new AI models appearing every day.

    When I say have your own tests, I mean have a benchmark set of prompts that test models to see how they perform on your specific tasks. Have a deep, complex set of prompts that test:

    • Obeying instructions, especially multistep instructions
    • Reasoning and thinking
    • Creativity and fluency in writing
    • Writing code or fancy outputs

    Then when a new model drops, you run your tests, compare it to other models, and decide whether the new model is an improvement or not for things specific to you.

    The big benchmarks that everyone uses – GPQA, MMLU, and the rest of the alphabet soup that makes up AI model testing is useful as a general apples-to-apples comparison of different models, but they are not specific to you. They don’t test what you test. They don’t care about what you specifically care about.

    Here’s an example of a test. Take a beefy piece of your own content, 100% written by you, that has never been made public. Then you write a detailed prompt about how to reconstruct that piece – tone of voice, general outline of the piece, key points the AI must hit. Think of the instructions you’d give a ghostwriter, and write that all out.

    Then feed that prompt into any new AI tool that comes along and see how close the new thing gets to your original. You may find that a new AI thing that doesn’t get much hype turns out to really nail the task. You may find that the biggest hyped thing performs badly on the task.

    Either way, you will QUICKLY have an answer as to whether you should care about the new thing or not in a concrete way that assuages your FOMO and satisfies your stakeholders that are easily distracted by shiny objects.

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  • Why Taking Credit for Someone Else’s Work Kills Your Credibility

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    One of the enduring issues people have working with and around me is that I cast a very long shadow. I’ve been online and actively making stuff for more than 30 years, from my first website in 1994 to today.

    But one of the things I hate most is when someone else claims credit for my work.

    Which means by extension, I have to assiduously avoid doing the same. Here’s a concrete example. The new Trust Insights AI-Ready Marketing Strategy Kit is a collaboration, yes, with Katie Robbert and myself, but it is predominantly her work.

    Those of you who know me and have worked with me know that process and structure are not exactly my cup of tea. I’m more of a fine purveyor of barely-contained high-tech chaos. Even when I’m setting up on stage to give a keynote, my prep looks like a tornado ripped through a Best Buy.

    Which means that when you see stuff from Trust Insights that’s very clearly strategic thinking, process focused, organizational behavior and change management… it should be pretty clear I am not taking point on that. That’s Katie’s focus and work, and I want her to receive all the credit she’s due for it.

    Do I contribute my opinions and perspectives? Yes, of course, in the same way that Katie contributes her opinions and perspectives on my technological maelstrom.

    My focus is very much on the technology and the tactical. What does XYZ thing DO? How do we use it? What can we make of it or from it? How does it work? For example, the recent Unofficial LinkedIn Algorithm Guide? 95% my work and you can tell because the back 20% is entirely technobabble.

    As marketing becomes more and more personality-driven, from influencers to thought leadership, each of us who has a platform also has to make sure we’re not taking credit (or allowing others to assign credit) where it isn’t due. To do any less diminishes not only our collaborators and partners, but ourselves as well.

    And if you haven’t grabbed both guides, there’s a link in the comments.

    The Trust Insights AI-Ready Marketing Strategy Kit:
    https://www.trustinsights.ai/aikit

    The Unofficial LinkedIn Algorithm Guide for Marketers, Mid 2025 Edition:

    The Unofficial LinkedIn Algorithm Guide for Marketers (Mid 2025 Edition)

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  • **”Generative AI vs. Classical AI: Why Using the Wrong Type Can Lead to Disaster”**

    Katie shared this chart from McKinsey this morning, which is… inaccurate.

    Here’s why. There are three major forms of AI – regression, classification, and generative. We’ve had the first two for decades. You’ve experienced classification AI since the late 1990s when intelligent spam filters first appears to classify email as spam or not. You’ve experienced regression AI in every modern analytics tool you’ve ever used. Attribution modeling? Uplift modeling? Intelligent lead scoring? That’s all regression AI.

    And generative AI, especially rooted in language models like ChatGPT, is the third category.

    Generative AI, powered by language models, is good at LANGUAGE. Words and pieces of words. It’s bad at math. It can’t count well. AI model makers know this and write all kinds of workarounds (usually by having AI tools write code to do math).

    Some of the tasks on this chart are clearly language-based, like voice of the customer, or rapid idea to visualization. Those are great use cases for generative AI, because they’re fundamentally language tasks.

    Some of the tasks are not at all language-based, like route optimization or fraud pattern recognition, which are regression-based, mathematical tasks.

    If you use generative AI for those tasks, odds are you’ll be driving off a cliff, quite possibly literally.

    Why did this happen? My guess is this was put together by someone inexperienced who doesn’t know the differences among types of AI. Not all AI is generative, nor should it be. Even though we love what genAI can do, it’s not the answer to everything.

    The second slide shows green check or red X based on whether generative AI is the BEST choice for that task. There are some tasks that generative AI can kind of do, but language models in particular are not best suited for those tasks.

    Two key takeaways:

    1. Generative AI is not a magic wand. Don’t try to use it for everything. Use it for what it’s best at. Language models for language, vision models for vision, etc.
    2. Work with people who know ALL the classes of AI, not just generative AI. There are so many, many tasks where classical AI or even stock statistical methods are the best choice (like time series forecasting – AI methods only offer marginal improvement over classical techniques like S-ARIMA).

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  • How to Resurrect Dead Tech Ideas Using Generative AI (Like I Did with This Chrome Extension)

    “What’s your hobby, Mr. Bond?”
    “Resurrection.”

    Me too, Mr. Bond. And generative AI enables that.

    Here’s an example. Once upon a time, there was an amazing Google Chrome tab extension that let you set up different time zones in new tabs, like a world clock. It was pretty, it was effective, it was… bloated. The company that built it tied it to a server backend and then starting charging money for it.

    Then asked for more money. More money.

    And eventually went out of business. Poof. Gone.

    The idea was good. Their implementation was less good.

    So I sat down with generative AI and rebuilt the idea from scratch, my way:

    • No back end – completely local.
    • No data collected – completely private.
    • No tracking codes.
    • 1 ad, a blue link at the very bottom.
    • And most of all, forever free and open source because let’s be honest, it’s a clock.

    I resurrected it from the grave and did it my way. Now I have the thing I want, and it can never, ever be taken away from me.

    But here’s the thing: you can do this too.

    I’m not a Chrome developer.

    I ask good questions. I know how to use Deep Research tools. I can operate an AI coding tool (Cline). I have a good process.

    I do all the thinking.
    AI does all the typing.
    We are stronger together.

    So here’s the question for you: what perfectly good ideas that died of bad implementation do you know? How could you resurrect them?

    AI #GenerativeAI #GenAI #ChatGPT #ArtificialIntelligence #LargeLanguageModels #MachineLearning #IntelligenceRevolution

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