AI in Strategic Planning

I've been exploring AI's potential across about 20 different activities and more recently its potential for supporting strategic planning.
My son's company in LA, Active Theory, has been using AI to support client ideation and hence path ownership for nearly a year and some of their experiences have been instructive.

Understanding AI's strengths and weaknesses is key to effective use so here are a few observations:

• Have a way of filtering AI generation by developing a persona view. See it as a helpful assistant, very fast but limited in its knowledge and unduly confident in its findings.

• Be as aware as you can be of the learning database your assistant is based on and stay safely in those bounds, understanding time and quality limits.

• Be nice to your assistant. If you are harsh or neutral it becomes more robotic, even sulks. Give it positive and gentle negative feedback about what is good and bad and it will learn about you and what you want.

• Your assistant is quite good at reading and summarising large documents, restructuring material, pulling out key points. especially as it gets to know you.

• Use it for the first pass and reserve your effort for the next levels.

• Use your assistant only for those topics where you have genuine expertise and the capacity for critical thinking about their material. It handily tends to be easier to critique the material than if it were your own material, but still be nice.

• Consider your simple general purpose use of your assistant as crucial to subsequently ideating game changing use.

• Finally, be aware of latest trends in AI such as image and video generation.
  
  Interested in your views folks. And not created by AI.