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Paul McDonough-Smith estimates that many business leaders would struggle to define their organization’s problem clearly in fewer than 25 words. With AI, that lack of clarity can quickly turn into fragmented solutions and misplaced expectations. In this episode of The AI Forecast, Paul Muller sits down with Paul McDonough-Smith, a Visiting Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management and a Senior Advisor to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, to explore how organizations can approach AI with greater clarity and purpose.

AI Optimization is a workspace for managing how Qlik Answers understands an application. It brings semantic management into one experience, where you can review AI-generated semantic understanding and make corrections before they reach an answer. The result is a visible, correctable layer where there used to be none. AI Optimization is the central place to manage how Qlik Answers interprets your application. Semantic Understanding, inside it, shows and lets you edit this interpretation of each field and master item.

Qlik's MCP server just got three new lookup tools built for data engineering. They connect directly to your Qlik Cloud tenant, so coding agents can pull the real project values a pipeline needs instead of working from an empty template, find spaces and data connections by name, and browse the tables and views available on a connection, just by asking in natural language. That means easier declarative pipeline creation, with real tenant context built right into your prompt for faster, more accurate iteration.