Excellent interview with Alexia, Bruce, and this accompanying post rings true. I come across so many people – both young and old – who don't want to engage with AI for various reasons. The 'head-in-the-sand' mentality is real.
I agree that companies aren't engaging fast enough, but that shouldn't stop individuals also taking responsibility for their own development. I normally hate the 'personal responsibility' mantra, but I can see the future coming and am not sure there's enough room in the lifeboats for everyone (to mix far too many metaphors)
Appreciated the thoughtfulness of this podcast. I agree that too few businesses are engaging with this - human nature?! And am taking this into the organisations I work with. Culturally will benefit organisations who get comfortable with not having the answers but being willing to ask the questions. Thanks as ever for the time you make to pull all this together, Im really grateful.
One of the things I rarely see in these discussions is that the world you describe will inevitably need fewer workers. I think there is a general reluctance to reckon with that - it is all very well to say companies have lots of opportunities for growth, but in reality if there is mass unemployment and a collapse of mid-level knowledge work, what businesses are going to be viable? Who will there be to buy products and services? Society would (will?) be deeply unstable and a bad environment for many organisations, surely?
Agreed. Minimum basic income has gone from being Bernie Sanders coded to being inevitable to sustain the economy. But it goes further than that, what prospect is there for social mobility if half the economy is on the same minimum salary with no chance of being saved by education? Within a generation that transcends class and becomes an immovable caste.
It also means that if you’re paying every citizen £20000 a year it makes being a citizen substantially more appealing to outsiders. Levels of complexity.
Excellent interview with Alexia, Bruce, and this accompanying post rings true. I come across so many people – both young and old – who don't want to engage with AI for various reasons. The 'head-in-the-sand' mentality is real.
I agree that companies aren't engaging fast enough, but that shouldn't stop individuals also taking responsibility for their own development. I normally hate the 'personal responsibility' mantra, but I can see the future coming and am not sure there's enough room in the lifeboats for everyone (to mix far too many metaphors)
Appreciated the thoughtfulness of this podcast. I agree that too few businesses are engaging with this - human nature?! And am taking this into the organisations I work with. Culturally will benefit organisations who get comfortable with not having the answers but being willing to ask the questions. Thanks as ever for the time you make to pull all this together, Im really grateful.
One of the things I rarely see in these discussions is that the world you describe will inevitably need fewer workers. I think there is a general reluctance to reckon with that - it is all very well to say companies have lots of opportunities for growth, but in reality if there is mass unemployment and a collapse of mid-level knowledge work, what businesses are going to be viable? Who will there be to buy products and services? Society would (will?) be deeply unstable and a bad environment for many organisations, surely?
Agreed. Minimum basic income has gone from being Bernie Sanders coded to being inevitable to sustain the economy. But it goes further than that, what prospect is there for social mobility if half the economy is on the same minimum salary with no chance of being saved by education? Within a generation that transcends class and becomes an immovable caste.
I just don't think governments are at the races on this. I'm not sure they know the way to where the race is being held.
It also means that if you’re paying every citizen £20000 a year it makes being a citizen substantially more appealing to outsiders. Levels of complexity.
> Microsoft announced major cuts two weeks ago.
With recent layoffs their total headcount is about the same as it was about a year ago. Layoffs make the news. Slow growth doesn't.