22 Nice AI and Productiveness cartoon – Marketoonist

“Perhaps AI will assist you work. However extra doubtless, you’ll be working for AI.” 

Ian Bogost made this statement a number of months in the past within the Atlantic, and it caught with me.  As organizations scramble to include AI, nobody is aware of fairly how AI will impression the way forward for work.  Will productiveness positive aspects be offset by, as Ian Bogost put it, AI’s “inevitable bureaucratization?”

Or will it map nearer to the imaginative and prescient described by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang final week at a graduation tackle at Nationwide Taiwan College.  Huang mentioned that “2023 is an ideal yr to graduate” and that graduates will have the ability to “reap the benefits of AI and do wonderful issues with an AI copilot by your facet.” 

Huang then voiced a sentiment I’ve seen numerous occasions within the months because the arrival of ChatGPT: 

“Whereas some fear that AI might take their jobs, somebody who’s skilled with AI will.”

A number of the largest open questions on AI disruption contain the organizations of the longer term, what expertise are required, and the impression of productiveness.  Not even management is proof against the potential impression.

Alibaba CEO Jack Ma as soon as predicted that sooner or later “a robotic will doubtless be on the duvet of Time journal as the perfect CEO.”

Final August, a Hong Kong-based gaming firm with $2.1B in annual income appointed an AI bot to be their CEO. Tang Yu, the AI bot CEO of NetDragon Websoft, works 24/7 for no wage.  Their share worth is at the moment up 10%.  

Gimmicky PR stunt, positive, however McKinsey estimated that at the least 25% of a CEO’s time is spent on duties that AI might replicate, from reviewing monetary efficiency, to sending emails, to forecasting traits.

I feel organizations ought to query simply how greatest to strategy the AI-powered productiveness increase.  There will probably be a distinction between organizations with a progress mindset versus these with a cost-cutting mindset. 

Productiveness by way of cost-cutting alone is usually a race to the underside.

Listed here are a number of associated cartoons I’ve drawn through the years:

“If advertising and marketing saved a diary, this could be it.”

– Ann Handley, Chief Content material Officer of MarketingProfs

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