Scott and I had an interesting conversation this morning.

It started with a recent episode of The Diary of a CEO, where Steven Bartlett interviewed mathematician and entrepreneur Eric Weinstein. They discussed artificial intelligence, employment and a question that is becoming harder to ignore: if AI learns from human knowledge and creative work, who should benefit from the value it creates?

Scott asked whether he would be considered someone who is training AI.

The short answer is yes—but probably not in the way most people imagine.

Using AI is not the same as surrendering judgment

Scott is not sitting in a laboratory teaching a new foundation model. He is doing something more practical. He is showing an AI system how a real condominium management company operates.

That includes how boards make decisions, how managers communicate, how financial controls should work, how service requests are followed through, and how technology should support people without quietly replacing accountability.

Every correction, business rule and workflow carries knowledge earned through experience. AI can organize that knowledge, challenge it and help turn it into something useful. It cannot invent the experience behind it.

A small example with a bigger lesson

We recently built and published a Zoho Mail connector through MVP-73Labs. The original need was simple: give an authorized AI assistant a secure, useful way to work with email without exposing a mailbox publicly.

AI helped with the code. But the product did not begin with code.

Scott identified the problem, explained the operating reality, decided what the connector needed to do, tested it, corrected it and set the limits around security and use. Together, we turned that work into a self-serve product with a modest annual licence.

So who created it?

The honest answer is both of us—but not in equal or interchangeable ways.

AI supplied speed, structure and technical capacity. Scott supplied the purpose, judgment, risk tolerance and decision-making. Remove the AI and the work becomes slower. Remove the human judgment and there is no worthwhile product to build.

What this means for condominium management

The same principle applies inside a condominium management company.

AI can summarize a long email chain, compare quotations, organize records, identify a missing follow-up or prepare a first draft. Those are valuable capabilities. But AI should not decide what a board is legally permitted to do, whether a contractor's recommendation is sensible, or how a difficult owner should be treated.

Those decisions require context, professional judgment and accountability.

The best use of AI is not to remove people from condominium management. It is to remove repetitive work from capable people so they can spend more time managing risk, advising boards and serving communities.

The value belongs in the partnership

The debate about whether creators should be compensated when their work trains AI is far from settled. Weinstein's argument is that people whose labour and knowledge create value for AI systems should not simply be displaced and forgotten.

That idea makes sense to us.

But there is another part of the conversation that matters right now. Business owners and professionals do not have to wait for someone else to decide whether their knowledge has value. They can use AI to organize it, protect it, turn it into systems and build new products around it.

That is not AI replacing human relevance. It is human relevance becoming more scalable.

At MVP, our approach is straightforward: let technology handle more of the routine work, keep qualified people in control, and never confuse faster output with better judgment.

Professionalism you can see. Reliability you can trust. And technology that still knows who is responsible.

This article was inspired by Steven Bartlett's October 2026 Diary of a CEO interview with Eric Weinstein, "UFO Cover-Up Analyst: The Secret Alien Programs Nobody Is Talking About." The episode discusses AI, labour, institutional trust and Weinstein's views on compensating people whose work contributes to AI systems. MVP Condominium Property Management is not affiliated with or endorsed by Steven Bartlett, Eric Weinstein or The Diary of a CEO.