AI can be incredibly useful for improving a presentation. It can also be confidently wrong.

In Where the Machine Lies to You, TJ Walker explores the limitations of using artificial intelligence as an editor, adversary, simulated audience, and presentation-testing tool.

AI can flatter you. It can produce generic feedback. It can miss office politics, personal relationships, history, emotions, and the subtle dynamics of a real room. It can also generate an impressive-sounding answer that simply isn't true.

That doesn't make AI useless. It makes human judgment more important.

This episode explains why AI should be treated as a hypothesis generator and pressure-testing partner rather than an unquestionable authority. The real-human recall test still matters, because a simulated audience cannot completely repro ...