Every AI strategy meeting has a translation problem. Leaders are approving systems, signing contracts, and setting policy based on terms they’ve never had defined for them. The vendor speaks. The room nods. The decision gets made and somewhere in the middle, something critical got lost.

This episode fixes that. Not with a glossary. By walking through exactly how an AI interaction works, from the moment you send a prompt to the moment something goes wrong and naming the five terms that reveal what your organization is actually authorizing.

Tokens: the billing unit nobody explained. Context Window: the hard memory limit that silently drops what doesn’t fit. Temperature: the confidence dial that has nothing to do with accuracy. AI Slop: what comes out the other end when the first three are misaligned. And Prompt Injection: the attack that works because someone outside your organization understands these systems better than your leadership team does.

The episode closes with a five-question Boardroom Readiness Diagnostic, one question per term, designed to be asked before your next AI procurement or deployment review.

If you haven’t listened to Episode 3, that episode covers AI hallucinations in depth — start there if that term is still unfamiliar.