#ai-in-workplace

#ai-in-workplace

His reward for going along with those demands, after being a faithful servant for 17 years at the edutech company? Getting replaced by a large language model, along with a couple dozen of his coworkers. That's, of course, after his boss reassured him that he wouldn't be replaced with AI. Deepening the bitter irony, Cantera - a researcher and historian - had actually grown pretty fond of the AI help, telling WaPo that it "was an incredible tool for me as a writer."

It's been less than three years since ChatGPT lit the fuse of the current explosion of AI everywhere. AI years move even faster than Internet years, so there's been time not only for the forcible injection of AI into the workplace courtesy of Microsoft, but the first scientific studies of the effect. Productivity may not have gone up, but anxiety, confusion and annoyance most certainly have.

We are living through an AI revolution. Boards are green-lighting pilots and buying AI licenses to maximize employee productivity. However, the most powerful performance lever in the modern workplace isn't algorithmic, it's human. When people are happier at work, they create, collaborate, and stay. When they aren't, the best tech in the world won't stop the value from leaking out of your organization.

In an era where generative AI and autonomous agents are rapidly redefining how work gets done, hesitation is the new risk.

I think we should let the French go to a two-day work week and then kick their ass internationally. There's no such thing as a work week anymore anyways on a digital economy.