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The bots got loose, and we weren’t ready for it
The nightmare scenario we were warned about has happened: The robots escaped containment. But don’t pull out your Sarah Connor arsenal just yet. They did it so they…
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A round of applause, please, for the orchestrators
The angst about AI’s role in the ongoing layoff saga is hiding a bigger problem: The U.S. is on track for a major, MAJOR labor shortage over the…
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No rest for the weary in an AI-driven world
Did you hear? Claude now has a feature that provides insights into how you’re using it. Like, patterns about time of day, what sort of tasks you give…
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To silo or not to silo, the question with agents
My dad sold concrete silos and grain storage systems for a living. Taller than the ones in the image above, and with flat tops. They’re all over the…
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When human systems fail, AI is the wrong scapegoat
Last week in inauspicious AI news … Apple and Xbox announced price hikes because of AI-caused supply shortages. 400 newspapers filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI for…
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Reinventing the wheel, and then reinventing it again
Last week, I saw three different solutions to the same problem, created by three different people, with varying degrees of AI assistance to identify actions with the most…
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Bugmageddon reveals how unprepared we are to squash it
I have a strange fascination with cybersecurity. Not enough to, like, go into it as a profession, but enough to be healthily scared. You know the drill: Not…
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The revolution won’t be televised, but it might go underground
Despite the hype, despite the clarion call to action, despite the mandates, roughly half of the individual contributors in the U.S. aren’t using AI very much, and about…
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Org AI Literacy Step 4: Comfort with chaos
It’s not pleasant when things go to hell in a handbasket. The type of hell and the parameters of the handbasket may vary, but in general it involves…
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Org AI Literacy Step 3: Culture of learning
As a rule, I like to get things right the first time. This is partly because patience is not one of my gifts. But mostly, I don’t like…