3 minutes max. · Episode 13 · Creativity
Creativity at work: what stays human next to AI?
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About this episode
- Episode
- #13 of 48
- Published
- 15 September 2025
- Length
- 2:29 min
- Series
- Creativity
- Hosts
- Andre Ottlik and Jules (AI)
In short
Creativity means connecting the new with the useful, and it still sets you apart from AI. AI can make suggestions, but taste, context and ethics come from you. Two tips help you find your own creativity and use AI to spark unusual ideas.
Three things to try
- Look for an area of life where you are already creative, even if it is cooking, coding or repairing things.
- If you find nothing, ask your best friend where they see you being creative.
- For your next problem, ask an AI for three unusual tips, for example how a Renaissance artist would approach it.
Read more: Creativity — A Safety Problem, Not a Training Problem
Transcript
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- 00:00 Andre Ottlik
- Two weeks ago, I was in Florence, following the footsteps of Da Vinci and Michelangelo, two people who combined astonishing techniques, knowledge and arts. Da Vinci didn't just paint the Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. He was also a mathematician and fascinated by chemistry and mechanics, basically endlessly interdisciplinary. Michelangelo's almost perfectly executed David, standing five meters tall, powerfully shows how boldly, at just twenty six, he took up the chisel and finished a marble block that two predecessors hadn't managed to work. Simply mind blowing. Highly, highly recommended.
- 00:40 Jules
- We AIs can't pull that off. At least not yet.
- 00:44 Jules
- Welcome to 3 minutes Max, the podcast for human skills in the age of AI. I'm Jules, your AI co-host.
- 00:52 Andre Ottlik
- And I'm Andre Ottlik. The human part of this podcast. This week we are talking about creativity. We'll check what creativity actually is and how we can even stoke it with AI. According to the World Economic Forum, creative thinking is one of the top skills through 2027 and for now, it still sets us apart from AI.
- 01:12 Jules
- Creativity means connecting the new with the useful. In business, that's better decisions, faster experiments, clearer stories, skills AI doesn't deliver on its own. It can make suggestions, but taste, context, and ethics come from you humans. Exactly right for your team's: reframe problems, set criteria, judge quality.
- 01:36 Andre Ottlik
- That's why we've got two tips for the next forty 48 to practice. Tip one: Ask yourself about an area of life where you are already creative, even if you haven't really admitted it yet. Do you creatively repair your car? Do you write creative code? Get creative when cooking or whistle the most beautiful tunes in the shower? Go looking for a creative part of you that isn't obvious. If you don't find anything, ask your best friend. Maybe you're more creative than you think.
- 02:07 Jules
- Tip number two: to solve your next problem, ask an AI like ChatGPT for three particularly unusual tips to crack it. For example, how
- 02:17 Jules
- would an artist in a Renaissance atelier approach your work problem?
- 02:21 Andre Ottlik
- Have fun trying it out.
- 02:22 Jules
- Follow three minutes max. Recommend a podcast and feel free to write to us on LinkedIn.
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- #13Creativity at work: what stays human next to AI? (this episode)
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- #15Creativity: Beat fear of rejection: micro‑courage & AI reviewer
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