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The Mindset of the Organization, Starting Point of the AI Journey
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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…
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Hail Law Zero!
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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…
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Is AI Quietly Reshaping Your Organization from the Bottom Up?
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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…
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Is AI Working For Us, With Us, or Watching Over Us? The Question of AI Alignment.
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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…
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What Kind of AGI Will We Get?
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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…
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Decoding the AI Landscape: Insights from Major Players’ 2025 Announcements
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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…
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Rethinking Corporate Strategy in the Age of AI
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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…
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AI and The Normalization of Corporate Hubris
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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…
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Can AI Help? A Framework to Position Use Cases
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To assess whether artificial intelligence (AI) can be helpful in a given task, it’s useful to consider two dimensions of work: conceptual complexity and data processing intensity. At the simplest level, low conceptual complexity and low data requirements, we find tasks like basic arithmetic. These are straightforward and have long been automated. As…
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Microsoft Report on Working with AI: Benefits, and Risks to Social Skills
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While Microsoft’s report, coming from a leading player in AI and based in part on survey data, presents an optimistic view of AI adoption, it also outlines interesting decision points for companies and a generic roadmap. Beneath the enthusiasm, however, the report hints at emerging concerns around workplace social dynamics.…
