What happens to your story once you give it to AI?

In Episode 13 of 100 Stories: The Narrative Intelligence Project, Paige Williams talks with technology executive, author, entrepreneur, and Equis AI CEO Sandy Carter about AI, privacy, leadership, organizational culture, and the stories shaping whether we trust or resist new technology.

Drawing on her leadership experience at IBM and Amazon, Sandy shares how organizational narratives can become something people actually use to make decisions. She tells the story of being asked at Amazon to present one of her failures instead of her successes, and how that experience changed the way she thought about vulnerability, learning, and leadership.

The conversation also explores the dominant stories surrounding AI today, including fears about job loss, the perception that AI is only for technical people, and growing concerns about what happens to the personal information we share with AI systems.

Sandy also offers an important insight for understanding technology adoption: people’s perceptions can change once they actually experience what a technology can do. That raises a larger Narrative Intelligence question: Can experience change the story through which we understand a new technology?

Paige and Sandy explore the responsibility of technology creators, the difference between AI-generated answers and human lived experience, and why judgment, context, values, and consequence still matter.

For Sandy, Narrative Intelligence at the organizational level is about the story a company lives every day, one that helps people make decisions aligned with shared values and principles.

100 Stories: The Narrative Intelligence Project asks:

How malleable are the stories we live by, and what does it take to change one?

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