Systems Optimist, Storyteller, Co-founder @HeyOyster 🐝🦄, Author of https://teapawt.net/t.co/Q8G2zJnaJw
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Through Storytelling, we all possess the power to change systems. ssir.org/articles/entry/usin…
I just found out Impact Unleashed will be on the syllabus at Kroc USD in the Fall!
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New AI wealth will be soon be flowing into philanthropy. But, according @NickAllardice, the system won’t take it.
This made me think that the money earmarked for doing good in the world should be allocating in a continuum rather than in buckets.
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AI scales the work. The judgment is still on you.
That's the risk most leaders are missing, according to Jack Mardack, co-founder of Oyster (@HeyOyster) and Mercedes Marín García, Director General of Training at @ComunidadMadrid at South Summit26.
What's at risk isn't the job. It's the judgment. Leaders fear AI will replace their teams. The real danger is that it replaces their judgment, invisibly, without anyone noticing until it's too late.
Verification is now a leadership function. You can automate decisions. You cannot automate responsibility for them.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲: treating AI as an individual productivity tool. That's only the first step. The real opportunity is organizational redesign. Most leaders aren't asking that question yet.
𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗯𝗶𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗽 𝗶𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆: stop measuring activity. Start measuring outputs.
That's what @2hp (Jack Mardack) and Mercedes Marín García debated at South Summit26.
Grateful to @Forbes_HU for the recent interview.
Europe wants to be more like the US in venture. Hungary wants to be more like Europe. It won’t be a shortage of talent that holds them back.
Full interview (in Hungarian) 👉🏽 forbes.hu/uzlet/jack-mardack…
It seems I wrote with remarkable prescience and perspicacity about economic inequality in America 14 years ago ixjy.com/post/21675013623/am…
Still optimistic.
After listening to @vendorprisey talk about how hard it will be for legacy systems to do AI, and then listening to @garrytan talk about what they have built at YC, I realized just how incredibly valuable it is to be able to build from scratch right now.
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Nos vemos en Madrid!
#southsummit26
ALT Oyster cofounder Jack Mardack wearing a South Summit t shirt, smiling and indicating the orange logo on the t shirt with both thumbs. A pleasant blue sky and garden setting appear behind him.
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If anyone is creating a company that helps companies that pulls companies up these levels, I'd love to meet. Particularly around legibility and/or non-engineer usage of AI
Projected energy demands of AI are off the charts according to a recent AI energy investment thesis from @SalesforceVC
But forward-thinking startups like @CrusoeAI are flipping the narrative. Read more: systemsoptimist.substack.com…
@ChaseLochmiller
The AI jobs displacement debate shouldn’t be focused on whether AI can replace jobs, but whether a critical mass of firms believe they can’t wait to find out.
@erikbryn @ccatalini @DarioAmodei
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Stoked to get our session selected for #SOCAP26 in Chicago! 🗳️
Give us a vote at: socapglobal.com/session-idea…
cc: @BetterSocCap
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This may be the least volitional business transformation we’ve ever seen. It will certainly be the fastest and most sweeping.
But not all leadership agency is forfeit.
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cc: @pvergadia @lugaricano
“What retains value in this environment is the ability to produce an output that wasn’t in the distribution — to ask a question the model didn’t anticipate, frame a problem in a way the training data didn’t cover, or make an incalculable leap”
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“You hear a narrative forming — she’s doing great, she’s bouncing back, something new and exciting is happening — and you find yourself listening with that calibrated mix of hope and skepticism.”
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What happens to human connection at work when AI removes the layer where most of it lived?
From the fellowship of manual labor to the office to the AI Sandwich — a new essay on the human cost nobody is talking about yet. @ccatalini
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