1. Welcome Video

Hi, I’m Mark, and welcome to Amplified Imagination. I’m glad you’re here.

Right now, AI has made the future feel like a moving target, thrilling one moment, overwhelming the next. That’s because the same uncertainty that sparks curiosity can also trigger fear. Which one wins will shape everything you create from here on.

We’re living through a once-in-centuries shift. AI is redefining entire industries, and for experienced professionals, it brings a peculiar tension: the excitement of new possibilities colliding with the fear of being left behind.

Here’s what I’ve learned, and it changed everything for me: AI doesn’t replace human creativity; it amplifies it. But only if you approach it with curiosity, not fear.

Let me pan out to set the broader context to why we are here. 

We stand at an inflection point for humanity.

Over the last couple of decades, technology’s march has transformed how we live, work, and love. 

Algorithms have permeated our lives, shaping how we think, influencing our choices, and directing our actions.

 As AI accelerates us toward a world of machine superintelligence, our innate human agency faces an existential threat, a challenge to our most fundamental right to retain control over what we feel, think, and do.

This is not a call to resist the adoption of AI. It’s a call to resist surrendering our agency to AI.

Throughout history, human agents of change have transformed civilization; great inventors, innovators, and difference makers who disrupted the status quo through curiosity, ingenuity, and creative leaps. They were the provocateurs of their time, challenging established thinking through genuine human insight.

Today, we’re witnessing the emergence of a new type of agent: agentic AI systems designed to act autonomously, make decisions, and execute tasks without human intervention. 

We’re at risk of handing over our capacity for independent action to artificial agents while being shaped by algorithmic systems that function like digital agents provocateurs, influencing our thoughts and behaviors in ways we don’t fully recognize.

This course exists to help you assert your role with AI as the agent of change. You’ll protect and nurture your forensic curiosity, let your innate creativity flourish, ignite your ingenuity, and then engage AI as a creative catalyst while applying critical judgment to curate its output.

The real provocation isn’t disrupting for disruption’s sake, it’s helping you recognize how your agency has been quietly undermined by systems that profit from predictability rather than possibility.

You are all agent of your own destiny. And the key to reclaiming that agency is curiosity.

Because curiosity is what shifts us out of the algorithm’s world of the probable and into the human realm of the possible.

See you in next video