The clues are usually there, but you have to stop and look at the details. How many of us stop to do that when we’re scrolling our social media feeds? That’s why fake images and videos spread online. They are designed to cause an immediate reaction, not for thoughtful examination.
Yet we must be thoughtful
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Some things never change – AI as the new slavery
So when they tell you that the risks and dangers are overstated, and not to worry about it, because the benefits will surely outweigh everything else, come back and remember that the wealthy said the same thing about slavery. For them, the benefits did outweigh everything else. That wasn’t the case for people who were…
Quick Thought – Prompting is Written Communication
Maybe this is another good reason to provide management and communication training to all employees, because soon we’ll all be managing our AI tools. Knowing how to communicate clearly would make a massive difference in creating that “relationship” at work.
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Worth Reading – Artificial Intelligence Can’t Fix the Work Environment
When you read some of the statistics about email, meetings, interruptions, etc., it’s hard not to see the same glaring red flag that Sharlyn sees. We might suck at communicating.
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Worth Reading – No surprise that Phishing Training Doesn’t Work!
Every employee is probably learning about AI because their job demands it, learning new features after new features of the tools they use to do their job, learning new systems that get rolled out every year, and dealing with technological change at a ridiculous pace.
Then, we make them responsible for learning how to stay…
Worth Reading – The great AI delusion is falling apart
This reminded me of something I’ve long wondered about some of the measurements provided by fans of AI – the processes that take so much less time than they used to. Are they looking at the whole picture? I know that sales demos do not. They’ll claim to have created an entire business plan in…
Worth Reading – AI Is Killing The Billable Hour (And It’s About Time)
For lawyers and other professionals, billing hours is indeed a dumb approach. It hasn’t made sense in years. If AI finally pushes that out of our way, we’ll owe it thanks for that alone. I don’t think AI is good enough to do work on its own, though, so the question then becomes, what are…
Worth Reading – Poor mental health is driving young people out of their jobs. My own journey showed me how to help
Then, when the labor market pendulum swings back the other way and there aren’t enough qualified workers to fill the jobs that it turns out AI can’t do, these same workplaces will come out talking about how they’ve always supported worker mental health, they even have an EAP hotline for workers!
Could you not buy…
Worth Reading – AI is turbocharging worker productivity but it’s also wreaking havoc on their mental health
It’s the classic conundrum for workers. If you’re the most productive member of your team, what’s your reward?
More work.
If you’re the most productive member of your team using AI, what’s your reward?
More work, while being more isolated, to work with the AI.
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Worth Reading – AI Blackouts Are Coming: How Law Firms Can Maintain Enterprise Operations During Agent Grid Failure 2025
Perhaps we should include a bullet point or two in our business continuity plans for addressing AI outages. Of course, we might also consider the continuity plan for AI tools, or any SAAS solution, going under as well. It’s just good risk management.
How much of your AI work would be negatively impacted by even…