How to Lead AI Before It Leads You: AI Literacy - Elena Filatova

Send Fan Mail by Text!Most conversations about AI ask "how do we control it?" Sharna Fabiano asks a more useful question: how do you lead AI so it doesn't end up leading you? In this episode, she talks with Elena Filatova about the mechanics behind how AI actually generates answers — and why understanding those mechanics is what keeps a human in the lead role, instead of quietly following whatever the model produces.Elena Filatova spent seven years at Google in data infrastructure and business intelligence before going independent. She now runs BCB Code Labs, where she builds AI-driven applications and helps businesses automate with AI, and teaches AI literacy.You'll learn: How one changed word can completely change an AI's response, and the mechanism behind itWhy AI "hallucinations" aren't mistakes — they're a statistical feature, not a bug, and why that changes how much you should trust an answerA simple technique — assigning AI a "persona" — for sharper, more targeted answersWhy asking AI to "make a list" is a more useful prompt than it soundsWhere to draw the line between real human-AI collaboration and wasteful "AI slop"Episode ReferencesAttention is All You Need (2017), Google ResearchConnect with Elenawww.bcbcodelabs.com Support the show*Get a discounted coach session with Sharna with promo code PODCAST https://www.sharnafabiano.com/coaching/Order the book: Lead & Followhttps://www.amazon.com/Lead-Follow-Dance-Inspired-Teamwork/dp/1646632796/Support the Show!https://www.buzzsprout.com/1735834/support