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What are the main obstacles to AI adoption?
I had the privilege of surveying various practitioners from EY to PWC and AWS at World Summit AI. The consensus is that mindset is the biggest hurdle. Interestingly, mostly at the executive level. This is where Berit and I facilitate sessions with executives, to help find clarity. The second hurdle concerns the selection of…
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Takeaways from World Summit AI in Amsterdam
Kudos to World Summit AI in Amsterdam for including diverse voices on AI development, not just the hyperscalers and their evangelists but also critics like Karen Hao https://lnkd.in/df2GYbqN. Without a vibrant conversation on AI governance, we’ll end up like after 1999 again, with a few giants controlling traffic on the net. While talks on what…
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The Mindset of the Organization, Starting Point of the AI Journey
Join us for a conversation with Gary A. Bolles, Global Fellow for Transformation at Singularity University and Partner at Charrette LLC. We discuss the impact of Gen-AI on work, the organizational transformation with exponential technologies and centrality of mindset, the evolving role of leaders and working with Gen Z. You can find the videocast…
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Hail Law Zero!
A great initiative from AI pioneer and safety advocate Yoshua Bengio, that I had the pleasure to meet at École Polytechnique in January: the launch of LawZero, a non-profit dedicated to developing solution for “safe-by-design” AI systems. At a time when many are lured by Big Tech’s El Dorado, it’s heartening to see a…
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Is AI Quietly Reshaping Your Organization from the Bottom Up?
One of the most overlooked questions leaders should be asking today is “Where is AI already being used, without formal approval or visibility?” In many organizations, AI adoption doesn’t begin with a top-down directive. It starts in the margins:• A product manager using ChatGPT to draft briefs• A financial analyst cleaning data with LLMs•…
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Is AI Working For Us, With Us, or Watching Over Us? The Question of AI Alignment.
When systems like Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 call authorities or refuse user requests that appear unethical or illegal, it’s more than a quirky safeguard. It’s a call to ask: Whose interests should AI serve? What does “aligned with humans” mean when human goals are ambiguous, conflicting, or even harmful? 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐀𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐯 𝐭𝐨 𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭: 𝐇𝐨𝐰…
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What Kind of AGI Will We Get?
The dawn of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), the ability for AI to match human level’s ability to understand, learn and apply knowledge, is upon us: 📏 You can 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 it in the ability of models to ace benchmark tests. GPT-4, Gemini and Claude have shown significant year-over-year gains on academic and professional benchmarks like…
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Decoding the AI Landscape: Insights from Major Players’ 2025 Announcements
While I provide advice in a technology- and company-agnostic way, it’s useful to analyze the announcements made by major AI players during their conferences—such as this week’s Microsoft Build 2025, Google I/O, and tomorrow Anthropic’s Code with Claude. These events reveal each company’s strategic intent and areas of focus. When combined with performance benchmarks,…
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Rethinking Corporate Strategy in the Age of AI
EY’s EMEIA Board Priorities 2025 report recommends that boards ensure the organization’s AI and digital strategy aligns with its corporate strategy. They advise management to outline AI readiness for today and tomorrow, and to assess whether new tools support the existing direction, or if rapid advances in AI warrant a strategic rethink. This is…
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AI and The Normalization of Corporate Hubris
3 nuggets heard from Meta’s CEO Zuckerberg on the great perspectives AI is opening up for the company: 1. “we’re going to get to a point where you’re a business, you come to us, you tell us what your objective is, you connect to your bank account, you don’t need any creative, you don’t…