Project OT: Okay, Transformation?
Suddenly everyone is thinking about how organizations will be designed in the future. Almost nobody seems to be thinking about how to get from here to there.
Artificial Intelligence
Notes on what AI actually does to organizations, and why most predictions about it are wrong. The capability gap will be structural.
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AI can redesign a job without doing any of it
I've tried to keep this summary as brief as possible, and this is a theoretical model, so if anything's not clear here let's discuss in the comments, k?
The Fabricated Front
What can we learn from how people feel about AI output?
The first jobs eliminated by AI might be empty
Employment can shrink one vacancy at a time.
AI transformation is a workflow problem
AI made every task faster, and made the research worse. The workflow (as opposed to the task) determines whether that speed is valuable or problematic.
Five OD Things N° 13
Company as code; a city is not a computer; AI as cybernetic teammate; a field experiment rewires the org chart; when it starts feeling like a video game
Company as Code
Like a lot of things I write about, this is both a new and wild idea and something that's been around for a long time but hasn't really caught on. It'd be cooler if it did.
When It Starts Feeling Like a Video Game
The system goes on-line August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences
Don't treat human systems (exclusively) as engineering problems.
INSEAD: AI Changes the Org Chart
It is an article of faith among technologists that artificial intelligence will make workers more productive. A new field experiment suggests it may do something more interesting: make them more social.
The Decision Bottleneck
More flattening, more information, not a ton of good practice around decision-making.
Anthropic’s AI constitution is an exercise in rule-of-law governance
I solemnly swear that this is not an international relations blog, nor is it an AI blog, but THINGS ARE HAPPENING