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The dangerous step AI makes easy to skip

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Faster at the slide. Worse at the source. The trail is obvious. That does not mean it is right. | Image generated by AI, prompted by me. You sent the briefing ten minutes before the meeting. Clean headings, and a number on slide two that makes the argument land. You’re proud of how it all looks. Until someone asks where that number came from. You remember asking the AI model. You do not remember opening the file and looking into the details. Not the look you’re going for. In 2023 a lawyer…

Would it bother you if everyone knew?

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Faint unintended mark left across a blank page

Use AI Like Everyone Will Know A mark you leave without meaning to. | AI-generated image, prompted by me Anthropic caused a bit of a firestorm this week. The company behind Claude announced it is now adding invisible, machine-readable watermarks to AI-generated text, along with provenance metadata for generated files. You can read the details here. My social media feeds filled up with people celebrating the prospect of catching AI users, alongside people horrified that they might be caught….

Four AI Strategies. One Clear Winner.

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Person on a rocky shore facing a huge incoming wave

Four AI Strategies. One Clear Winner. The wave is coming. The only choice is how you choose to meet it. Your company just announced yet another AI initiative. Your LinkedIn feed is full of think pieces about the jobs it’s going to kill. Your colleagues are either panicking or pretending it isn’t happening. You’re not sure which is worse. Fear is useful when it alerts you to danger. It becomes a problem when it becomes your entire strategy. See the data from a recent Angus Reid poll: 57% of…

Performative AI is killing your reputation

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Smiling man sliding a blank page across a meeting table

Your Name Is On It And so is your reputation. The document is blank. The smile isn’t. And his name is on it. Jensen Huang — CEO of NVIDIA, the company that makes the chips powering the AI revolution — has a message for his engineers. If you’re earning $500,000 a year and you’re not consuming at least $250,000 in AI tokens, he’s going to be, in his words, “deeply alarmed.” He’s spending $2 billion a year on tokens for his engineering team. And he wants more. The signal is clear: organizations…

The LinkedIn CEO is only half right.

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Silhouette facing a mirror that shows a different person in the light

AI Isn’t Coming For Your Job. It’s Shining a Light On Your Excuses. The LinkedIn CEO wants you to upskill. I want you to ask a harder question. The mirror doesn’t show you what you are. It shows you what you’ve been avoiding. The CEO of LinkedIn, Ryan Roslansky, wants you to adopt a “skills-first mindset.” He argues that jobs are just collections of tasks. Some AI will do, some it will assist with, and some will remain “uniquely human.” His advice? Break your job down, automate the boring…

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