Wow, fascinating, the mismanagement is real: “Every inflated announcement, every time a company blames A.I. for layoffs teaches people to distrust the technology itself. Distrust builds resistance. The Writer and Workplace Intelligence report found that 44 percent of Gen Z workers and roughly a third of the broader work force said they were actively sabotaging their company’s A.I. rollout. The fear is real, and it is spreading.”
Interesting to hear from someone with direct management experience (Ms. Averill is a former chief information officer of Lululemon).
And what to do about it?: “The way out of this is not more hype. It’s honesty. A vocal minority of people genuinely believe superintelligence is nearly here, ready to either remake the world or end it. Who knows if they’ll be proved right? I’m skeptical because the humans are still in charge and we have a habit of moving slower than the hype. But most companies aren’t living in that debate. In my experience, the useful truth is the plainer one in between: A.I. is a genuinely powerful technology that still needs people, and putting it to use is slow, human work. The sooner we are honest about that with our boards, our employees, our investors and the public, the sooner we can stop performing A.I. and start building something with it.”
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