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Jenny Huang
Marketing and branding consultant with over 20 years of experience helping purpose-driven and socially responsible companies launch their products and build their brands
Last week, I've shared that I’ve been training Claude to think more like me.
The experiments that I have been doing with AI actually taught me a few things about creating values in our human work.
As a result, I have developed an early process the we can use as a framework to help us navigate what we want to own and keep doing better, and what we want to get AI to assist so we can continue to do our best work.
Tip #1:
Defining What You as a Human Want to Own
Ownership is about something that you choose to hold onto, take responsibility for & get better at it -- not something that you want to outsource or let AI do it for you.
Before you can blend human & AI strengths, you need clarity on what you're not willing to hand off, regardless of how good the technology gets.
This starts with naming the human values that define how you work.
Here're some important ones:
*Human judgement under ambiguity: When the data is incomplete, the client is unclear about what they want, or the situation has no precedent, someone has to make a call. That would be you.
* Human empathy built over time: Consistency, follow-through & a willingness to be vulnerable with a client, these compound slowly & they can't be automated into existence.
* Ethical accountability: When a campaign misfires or a strategy backfires, someone has to own it, explain it & make it right. AI doesn't carry that weight.
* Human intuition in the room: The unspoken tension in a meeting, the hesitation in someone's voice, the moment a client needs reassurance instead of another uncertainty, this is a read-through emotion, not calculated from data.
* Human perspectives shaped by lived experience: Your point of view is shaped by everything you've lived through. Human lived experiences bring texture that data alone can't replicate, and be honest with what they are.
None of this is about resisting technology. It's about preserving and protecting the parts of you or your work that depend on human emotions & human perspectives in the first place.
What's your list of human value non-negotiables when working with AI?
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Told 5 times, Sep 23, 2026 – Oct 3, 2026
· Bluesky · Open
Been training Claude to think more like me lately in my workshops, my writing, my client work.
A Seth Godin clip on creating values in our human work stopped me mid-scroll and led me to a bigger question: what am I not willing to hand off, no matter how good AI gets?
· Bluesky · Open
None of this is about resisting technology. It's about protecting what depends on being human in the first place and being honest about what that is for you.
More on this next week: what AI is actually good at.
· LinkedIn · Open
Amplifying Human Values in the Age of AI
Recently, I've been doing more incremental training on Claude as a marketer. While I am learning to test and re-test if Claude’s AI approach can help me be more efficient in my workshop training and writing projects, I also learn that it takes quite a bit of time and patience to train AI to think like me.
As I'm going through my AI training, I pause from time to time to reflect on my philosophy about how we should integrate AI into our daily work and personal tasks.
I have always been a believer in keeping skills and superpowers that I own and not outsource them because they are non-negotiables – something that I continue to see as values that I bring to do my best work.
My values are my own experiences, struggles, intuition, perspectives, judgement, and stories that come to shape how I see things, hear things, learn things, feel things, analyze things, and connect with others.
While I'm getting better at working together with AI to do great work, I've been reminded by an interview clip of Seth Godin, who raised the message about creating values in our human work.
Godin is an American author, entrepreneur, and marketing expert known for changing how people think about modern marketing, leadership, and work. I've been following Godin because of his worldly wisdom and interesting things he said that wake people up.
What Godin said in that interview clip woke me up; it landed with me because I think we all need to be more aware and conscious of our superpowers, what we are good at that comes easily, and what we love to do that we don’t want to have someone else do it for us.
This thinking is what has prompted me to develop an early process to help us continue strengthening the values in our human work as technology evolves over time.
My intention is to help us start recognizing what we want to own as humans, and what we can work with AI together to do our best work.
Keep an eye on the next few posts where I will be sharing out my early process that you can use as a framework to work alongside with AI.
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· Bluesky · Open
Before you blend human + AI strengths, you need to know what you're not willing to hand off, no matter how good the tech gets. For me, that list includes:
* Judgement under ambiguity
* Empathy built over time
* Ethical accountability
* Intuition in the room
* Perspective from lived experience