Ethan Mollick: AI Urgency, Leadership Responsibility, and Why Companies Must Act Now
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Hi everybody, uh Nikola Tangen from the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund and today I am here with Ethan Molik, one of my favorite professors, a professor at uh Wharton and who is uh who was out uh not long ago with a book on co called Cointelligence, Living and Working with AI. And actually you can see it um behind Ethan there, down to down to the right. If you haven't got it, run and buy it. Ethan, if you were uh a chief AI officer uh in a company for the next three months, what kind of top actions would you take straight away? So I think that the the most important thing is to get people actually aware of where the state of the art in AI is.
I talk to companies all the time, and I think that a lot of executive level people may have tried AI a while ago or didn't use it personally and don't realize how potentially transformative it is. And I think that I I have a sort of general idea that you need to involve your team leadership. You need to evolve a set up a lab that's doing research and you need to think about how to roll this out to the crowd, to everybody in the organization. So you've got to kind of bring the whole company with you, which is not always an easy thing to do. And how do you maximize the overtake, the uptake in the organization?
So I think that's a it's a really good question. And I think we're still figuring out the answers, but it's kind of like any other thing you want to do. You have to think about incentives and you think you have to think about leadership, right? So why are people incentivized to use this? Now
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