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AI can make you faster, but speed is not the same as better thinking. We’re seeing teams bolt AI onto yesterday’s workflows, celebrate a few automation wins, and then wonder why the big strategic breakthroughs never arrive. The shift happens when AI stops being a task tool and becomes a thinking partner that challenges assumptions, spots blind spots, and helps leaders make clearer decisions under uncertainty.

I’m joined by Eddie Irvin, AI strategist and founder of Nashville AI Advisory. Eddie breaks down what “thinking with AI” looks like in real life, including why many systems default to agreeable responses and how to set expectations so the model critiques instead of compliments. We unpack practical prompting frameworks like the roundtable method, where AI generates multiple expert viewpoints and competing options so you can evaluate tradeoffs with human judgment rather than taking the first output as truth.

We also get concrete about implementation. Eddie explains why context is the secret ingredient for high-quality AI results and shares a simple tactic: ask AI to interview you first to capture the details you forgot to include. From there, we explore use cases across manufacturing and industrial operations for diagnostics and root cause analysis, then zoom out to business strategy where AI can function like a boardroom simulator and meeting partner that helps prioritize risks, constraints, and next moves. We close with the risks of over-partnering, including overtrust and mental atrophy, plus how to build a healthy AI partner culture with training and clear boundaries.

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Nearly seven in ten Americans support a policy that would have sounded impossible a few years ago: forcing AI companies to transfer 50% of their stock into a public sovereign wealth fund. We dig into a new nationally representative Verisight survey and unpack what that headline number really means for AI policy, corporate power, and who gets to benefit from the AI revolution.

We walk through why support is so high, starting with economic anxiety in the middle of tech layoffs and growing worries about job loss, wages, and who captures AI-driven productivity gains. Then we get into the trust gap: many people believe AI firms design regulation to serve themselves, and only a minority trust leading AI developers more than the federal government to judge model safety. That shift helps explain why the public is reaching for structural solutions like public ownership, not just softer guardrails.

We also connect the sovereign wealth fund idea to the broader regulatory picture the survey reveals: massive support for mandatory public disclosure of AI safety testing, strong backing for federal authority to block risky AI releases, and a clear desire for accountability and transparency in AI governance. The takeaway is bigger than one proposal. Public expectations are moving fast, and they point toward a future where AI regulation is not only about innovation, but also about legitimacy and shared prosperity.

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Verasight Survey: https://reports.verasight.io/reports/june-2026-ai-survey?utm_source=copilot.com

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The fastest way to waste money on AI in an accounting firm is to buy a tool that looks great in a demo and quietly dies in the trenches. We’ve all seen it: licenses get activated, dashboards look shiny, and then busy season hits and everyone goes back to the old way because the workflow doesn’t fit, the rollout is fuzzy, and the team is exhausted by yet another “game-changing” system.

We talk with Peter McCarroll, CPA and AI advisor, about what actually makes AI adoption stick in bookkeeping, tax preparation, and client advisory services. Peter reframes AI as a thinking partner and makes a blunt point: buying software isn’t transformation. The real work starts with leadership, clear problems to solve, and pilots that prove we can work the software, not just that the software works. We dig into cultural resistance, staff fear, and the hidden ways “we’ve always done it this way” can signal a firm that’s about to fall behind.

From there we get tactical: how to avoid shelfware with small pilot groups, why “AI and the gaps” is the best place to start (especially when platforms like QuickBooks and desktop tax tools limit integration), and how to measure success beyond time saved by looking at whose time you’re saving. We also explore where tax automation is moving fastest right now around the tax binder and document intake, plus how AI can expand your advisory scope into profitability drivers like sales, marketing, and operations.

If you feel the clock ticking, you’re not imagining it. Peter argues firms have one busy season, maybe two, to get moving. Listen, share this with a firm owner who needs it, and subscribe so you don’t miss what’s next.

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