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158: AI Misconceptions

  • Writer: Meredith's Husband
    Meredith's Husband
  • Aug 24
  • 2 min read

Updated: Sep 6

Busting the Biggest Myths About AI

Artificial intelligence is everywhere—shaping conversations in classrooms, online forums, and business meetings. Yet despite its rapid adoption, AI is still misunderstood. In this episode, Meredith’s husband breaks down eight of the most common misconceptions about AI and explains what website owners can take away from them.


8 Common Misconceptions About AI

  • AI is autonomous. Many believe AI operates independently, but it requires prompts and relies on existing datasets like Google, Bing, LinkedIn, or Wikipedia.

  • AI understands like humans. AI doesn’t comprehend; it predicts words and outcomes based on probability.

  • AI is always correct. It can confidently provide wrong answers, sometimes pulled from biased or unreliable sources.

  • AI is completely objective. AI reflects the biases present in its training data.

  • AI can create original things. AI only remixes and combines existing content—it doesn’t generate true originality.

  • AI has ethics or morals. Any values AI appears to have were programmed by developers.

  • AI will replace all jobs. Like past technological revolutions, AI will eliminate some jobs but also create entirely new ones.

  • AI is a black box nobody understands. While complex, AI is not unknowable. However, as AI helps build new generations of AI, developers lose some visibility into its inner workings.


Why This Matters for Website Owners

For business owners—especially those managing websites—these misconceptions highlight how to use AI effectively without overrelying on it. AI is excellent for brainstorming content ideas, drafting outlines, and researching broadly. But since it can be wrong, biased, or overly confident, fact-checking is critical.


Just as digital photography didn’t eliminate film entirely, AI won’t erase all jobs or industries—it will reshape them. The best path forward is to focus on what only humans can do: build authentic relationships, bring empathy to storytelling, and deliver services AI can’t replicate.


By understanding AI’s limits and strengths, website owners can position themselves to work with AI, not fear it.

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