Whether AI and the technologies it enables will reach their full potential depends on the workforce that will work alongside them. Yet the skills...
Exactly ten years ago, on July 3, 2015, we published the first version of Future of Leadership in the Age of AI. At that time, most discussions about artificial intelligence revolved around automating blue-collar jobs and routine manual tasks. Our contrarian view – based on hands-on experience implementing early AI systems in a large organization – was that AI would impact knowledge work even more profoundly. We envisioned AI evolving into super-smart pattern recognition and prediction machines, capable of augmenting or performing many cognitive tasks traditionally done by white-collar professionals. In other words, AI wouldn’t stop at the factory floor; it would move up the org chart into offices and boardrooms. This perspective was unusual then, but it has since been proven correct. In fact, as one early article presciently noted, AI’s effect on the workplace “will not be limited merely to repetitive, production line-type jobs” and is “increasingly entering the realm of highly trained knowledge workers”. We even argued that managers and executives would eventually work alongside AI, and that’s exactly the world we now see around us. (And have even published a comic on this topic at Working With AI).
Growing reliance on AI will not likely result in any of the three most common views of how AI will affect our future. Each...
Leaders must adapt to the changing culture as young workers enter the job market with expectations strikingly different from the ones that leaders traditionally...
In the summer of 1956, a small gathering of researchers and scientists at Dartmouth College, a small yet prestigious Ivy League school in Hanover,...
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To remain competitive, organizations will increasingly have to innovate. As the speed of innovation increases, disrupting whole sectors, competitive intelligence, market intelligence even a...
Cybersecurity strategies need to change in order to address the new issues that Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) bring into the equation....
In 1956, at a workshop on the campus of Dartmouth College, in Hanover, New Hampshire, the field of artificial intelligence (AI) was born. Attendants...
If you've ever been to an expensive restaurant and ordered a familiar dish like, say, lasagna, but received a plate with five different elements...
