AI Made Some Scientists 44% More Productive. And Did Almost Nothing for the Rest.

AI Made Some Scientists 44% More Productive. And Did Almost Nothing for the Rest.

by | May 11, 2026 | A.I., Agility, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence Impact, Brand You, Change, Change Leadership, Disruption, Distinction, Future Work, Leadership, Resiliency, Talent, The New World of Work

TALENT AI Made Some Scientists 44% More Productive. And Did Almost Nothing for the Rest. A new MIT study on AI productivity for research scientists just produced the most important split result in workforce science. Source: Toner-Rodgers, MIT. arXiv:2412.17866....
To Predict the Killer’s Name, You Have to Understand the Entire Novel

To Predict the Killer’s Name, You Have to Understand the Entire Novel

by | May 8, 2026 | A.I., Agility, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence Impact, Change, Change Leadership, Disruption, Future Work, The New World of Work, Uncategorized

The most common dismissal of AI: “It’s just predicting the next word.” Ilya Sutskever — co-founder of OpenAI — just demolished that argument. What he revealed about AI language understanding changes the conversation for every leader in every industry. There is a...

The AI Layoff Trap: Nobody Is Doing Anything Wrong. That Is Exactly the Problem

by | May 7, 2026 | A.I., Accountability, Agility, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence Impact, Change, Change Leadership, Disruption, Future Work, Leadership, The New World of Work

Two economists at Wharton and Boston University built the math. The math leads to one place: an economy that produces everything. And sells it to nobody. For the past several years, the dominant reassurance in the AI workforce debate has been this: technology has...
Talking to AI Makes You Harsher to Humans

Talking to AI Makes You Harsher to Humans

by | May 6, 2026 | A.I., Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence Impact, Brand You, Change, Change Leadership, Disruption, Future Work, Leadership, The New World of Work, Uncategorized

Not harsh to the AI. Harsh to the people around you. And you do not notice it happening. A peer-reviewed study published in PNAS Nexus, one of the most rigorous scientific journals in the world, just proved that spending time with an AI chatbot changes how you judge...