CR022: The problem with AI with Theo Priestley, Futurist
04/27/23 • 47 min
Conversations around the short and long term risks and potentially significant unintended consequences of AI are increasing in volume. This has culminated recently in a controversial open letter, coordinated by Future of Life institute, from hundreds of leading figures in this space, including Elon Musk, asking for development and AI learning to be paused, until it is better understood. “Advanced AI could represent a profound change in the history of life on Earth, and should be planned for and managed with commensurate care and resources,” the letter says. “Unfortunately, this level of planning and management is not happening, even though recent months have seen AI labs locked in an out-of-control race to develop and deploy ever more powerful digital minds that no one – not even their creators – can understand, predict, or reliably control.”
Dave, Sjoukje & Rob talk with Futurist Theo Preistley about the risks of AI already manifesting in society, what additional features and automations are coming, which potentially add more risk, and what can could and should be done at this point to ensure we bring AI into our lives responsibly.
Finally, in this weeks Trend, we talk about what organisations should do to prep for AI, and that fact that they still have time to act now to get the right arrangements in place.
TLDR:
01:15 Intros
02:08 Cloud conversation with Theo Preistley
38:25 What should organisations do to prep for AI?
45:27 The Evil Dead Rise and rewatch Picard!
Further Reading:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/31/ai-research-pause-elon-musk-chatgpt
Conversations around the short and long term risks and potentially significant unintended consequences of AI are increasing in volume. This has culminated recently in a controversial open letter, coordinated by Future of Life institute, from hundreds of leading figures in this space, including Elon Musk, asking for development and AI learning to be paused, until it is better understood. “Advanced AI could represent a profound change in the history of life on Earth, and should be planned for and managed with commensurate care and resources,” the letter says. “Unfortunately, this level of planning and management is not happening, even though recent months have seen AI labs locked in an out-of-control race to develop and deploy ever more powerful digital minds that no one – not even their creators – can understand, predict, or reliably control.”
Dave, Sjoukje & Rob talk with Futurist Theo Preistley about the risks of AI already manifesting in society, what additional features and automations are coming, which potentially add more risk, and what can could and should be done at this point to ensure we bring AI into our lives responsibly.
Finally, in this weeks Trend, we talk about what organisations should do to prep for AI, and that fact that they still have time to act now to get the right arrangements in place.
TLDR:
01:15 Intros
02:08 Cloud conversation with Theo Preistley
38:25 What should organisations do to prep for AI?
45:27 The Evil Dead Rise and rewatch Picard!
Further Reading:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/31/ai-research-pause-elon-musk-chatgpt
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CR021: Human operating systems with Michael Hamman, Teacher & Coach
Digital organisations work in new ways that require us all to adapt and develop new skills and framing and making sense of the world. How to tackle this is one of the more difficult challenges requiring addressing in a digital transformation.
Dave, Sjoukje & Rob talk with Micheal Hamman, Teacher and Coach, about different styles of organisation and about how our beliefs can impact how we act. He also talks about the over emphasis on the engineering mindset, how we need to consider the human technologies and how all of our "human operating systems" may require some new apps.
Finally, in this weeks Trend, we talk about skills that modern leaders need to adopt and what can we learn from each other.
TLDR:
01:14 Intros
02:02 Cloud conversation with Micheal Hamman
24:05 Three skills every modern leader needs
33:19 Vertical Facilitation!
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In this special LIVE episode from a FinOps event, sponsored by Apptio & Capgemini in London on 26 April 2023, Dave, Sjoukje & Rob talk with Alison McIntyre, UK Ambassador for the FinOps Foundation, about the work of the FinOps foundation, the evolution of FinOps as a discipline, the importance of consumption forecasting and why that is different to a financial forecast.
Finally, in place of this weeks trend, we take some audience questions and amongst other things, talk about the link between FinOps and sustainability.
TLDR:
00:37 Intros
02:30 Cloud conversation with Alison McIntyre
34:15 Audience questions
40:50 Safari!
Further Reading:
https://www.finops.org/introduction/what-is-finops/
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