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source_title: "How to Create Value Systematically with Gen AI"
source_timestamps: ["\\\"§ Collective Intelligence", "¶4\\\""]
tags: ["collaboration", "training"]
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speaker: "Todd McLees, Nicole Radziwill and Greg Satell"
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sourceTitle: "How to Create Value Systematically with Gen AI"
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# AI as a common language

> "The key isn't just teaching people to use AI; it's creating a common language around what is possible."

— [[entity-todd-mclees]], [[entity-nicole-radziwill]], and [[entity-greg-satell]]

**Context.** AI training should expand a team's *sense of possibility*, not just mechanical tool usage — the essence of Level 2, [[concept-collective-intelligence-ai]], and the action [[action-treat-ai-as-colleague]].