The Devil Wears Prompts | Cathy Hackl on the Brand You No Longer Control

Cathy Hackl on what AI is doing to brands. Fewer than 10% of the sources AI assistants cite rank in Google's top 10 for the same question. Your brand equity moved and nobody sent a memo. Cathy Hackl has spent a decade being early. She was calling the metaverse before most boardrooms could spell it. USA Today named her one of the best predictors of tech behavior in the world, Newsweek named her a top AI visionary, and she is the number one voice on LinkedIn for spatial AI. As CEO of Future Dynamics, co-founder of Journey, and Futurist in Residence at Nokia, she has guided Nike, Walmart, Louis Vuitton, and Estee Lauder through what comes next. But she did not just predict the technology. She built one of the most recognizable personal brands in tech while doing it. So this conversation is about both kinds of brand, the company one and the personal one, now that AI sits between you and everyone you are trying to reach. We get into what a slop moment really costs, and whether one machine-sounding post means you lose the benefit of the doubt on everything you have ever written. Why executives believe young audiences are fine with AI content far more than those audiences say they are. What happens to persuasion when agentic shopping goes from 19% to 46% of consumers and the buyer is software that does not care whether your brand is loved. And what proof of human survives when a convincing version of any of us can appear anywhere, voice clone included. CONNECT WITH CATHY HACKL LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cathyhackl/ THE AI MARKETING COMPANION New episodes twice a month with Sandy Carter. Subscribe: https://youtube.com/@aifirstmarketing?si=sy4P6ERqEzeQtFqK Sandy on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandyacarter/ #AIMarketing #PersonalBranding #SpatialAI