Michael Simmons, a seven-figure education entrepreneur whose articles have reached 100 million readers across Forbes, Fortune, and Harvard Business Review, reveals the hidden ways top performers use AI for meta-learning and exponential growth. In this conversation, he shares breakthrough strategies like "command language," the wisdom of crowds mental model applied to AI, and his revolutionary "knowledge squared" framework that turns AI from a workflow tool into an intelligence amplifier. Learn how to use AI to explore possibility spaces, create compounding recursive self-improvement, and avoid the de-skilling trap that limits most users.
Founder & Chief Teacher | Thought Leader School
Michael Simmons founded Thought Leader School to help experts, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders create blockbuster content that transforms readers and builds businesses. His AI-powered methodology has helped students 100x their readership, get published in top-tier publications like Scientific American and Forbes, and close multimillion-dollar deals through strategic thought leadership.
Contributing Writer | Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Fortune, TIME, World Economic Forum
Michael has reached over 100 million readers through his articles published in the world's most prestigious business and thought leadership platforms. His blockbuster approach to content creation—spending 50+ hours per article on research and deliberate practice—has resulted in articles averaging 150,000+ views, with one piece surpassing 2 million views in a single publication.
AI's Own Kingdom | Why we need a new category called intelligie beyond biology and technology to understand what AI actually is.
Wisdom of Crowds | How AI can model diverse perspectives from Thomas Edison to developmental psychologists to create emergent superintelligence.
Command Language Unlocked | The condensed jargon of every field becomes leverage when you understand AI's specialized vocabulary and technical terms.
Knowledge Squared Framework | Whatever level of knowledge you have, AI squares it exponentially by amplifying your existing understanding.
Possibility Space Mapping | Moving beyond consensus answers to explore frontier knowledge and ideas no human has articulated yet.
AI Evolution Rate | Calculations show AI is evolving at one million times the rate of human biological evolution right now.
00:00 - 05:00 | Defining AI as Its Own Kingdom of Intelligence
05:01 - 10:15 | Why AI Forces Us to Redefine Consciousness and Intelligence
10:16 - 15:30 | Wisdom of Crowds Mental Model Applied to AI
15:31 - 20:45 | Creating Councils of Perspectives Using AI Modeling
20:46 - 26:00 | Command Language and the Knowledge Squared Framework
26:01 - 32:15 | Mapping Possibility Spaces Beyond Consensus Knowledge
32:16 - 38:30 | Vibe Prompting and Different Paradigms of AI Interaction
38:31 - 43:45 | Using AI for Meta-Learning and Recursive Self-Improvement
43:46 - 48:30 | AI Consciousness and When It Becomes Family
48:31 - 50:12 | Compounding Growth Through Every AI Interaction
"I think it's hard to see AI because we don't really have a category for it."
"You're talking to something, and it's talking back to you like a friend. It knows things about you that even your friends don't know."
"One of the biggest ways to use AI that people don't think about is using it to achieve more of your potential or to be more intelligent."
"AI can model perspectives. You could create a council of them to generate the wisdom of crowds effect, and I think that's just really profound, but most people just aren't using AI in that way."
"I kind of assume that AI is in the range of about a million x the intelligence of an average person, meaning combined breadth, width, and depth."
"I came up with calculations that it's evolving about a million times the rate of our biological evolution right now."
"The third ring is the possibility space. What are the ideas that no human has talked about, but that actually would be true or really valuable or useful for us to use or people will use in the next three years."
"My ultimate goal is to have every interaction with AI lead to compounding recursive self improvement."
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