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Three Approaches to Slowing AI Down
Source: The Guardian
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Earlier this year I wrote a Substack piece on “Slowing Down the AI Train.” After years of thinking there was no reason for serious concern about AI development, I decided that as a society we need to fig...
Ten Reasons Why We Won’t See Productivity Improvements from GenAI
Source: Ben Hickey, The Economist
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I have co-authored several articles over the last year or two that together suggest organizations are not likely to get business value with genAI if their primary focus is improving individu...
The AI World Moves Toward Organizational Deployment
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Stanford professors Bob Sutton and Melissa Valentine at AI + Organizations Conference
Much of the effort and attention around AI for the last several years has been around technical developments. New model announced! New ben...
Why It’s Hard to Redesign Work Processes with AI
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There is increasing consensus that to get value from AI, you have to redesign your business processes and embed AI within them. A McKinsey 2025 survey, for example, found that redesigning workflows is the factor most highly c...
Less Time, Less Attention for AI-Created Content
Source: Google Gemini
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All those people (4 of them, 3 of whom are related to me) who have followed my writing for decades remember that in 2001 (Sept. 10, unfortunately) I co-authored a book called The Attention Economy. I’ve...
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I'm a professor at Babson College, have minor appointments at MIT, and am a Deloitte advisor. I've alternated between consulting and business schools for several decades. I write about AI and what it means for us humans--no robots allowed!
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