Zack Kass

And it does not mean that the world does not have problems.

It means that we should be talking about the solutions to those problems, of which there are many, and we can talk about those things.

The other thing that I am pressing people on is broadly to have a more nuanced conversation where you actually say the thing that you mean.

And there are, again, examples of this in one way or in another.

And what we really, really, really, really right now need to reinforce is that there are incredible consequences to misusing AI, and there are incredible downsides that we need to be honest about.

And also, there's a ton of opportunities.

and that we should actually, in order to get there, navigate it.

And so that's broadly my message to most leaders.

As for leaders that are actually practicing with this technology,

Right now, there are two big failure points.

One is in the architecture of the data.

A lot of people are trying to do things with the machines where they do not have underlying data that actually allows them to do it.

And the other then is in cultural.

So if you think about, you go into an organization and you look at the layers that AI touches, it starts with strategy, then it's culture, or maybe it's culture, then strategy, then process, and then operations.

And for many businesses, they do not have a culture of failure.

And so they can't actually experiment.

And if you cannot experiment, then you can't actually try something new.

And that is where a lot of companies are just getting totally locked up around what they should or shouldn't do.

Because they'll say to an intern, hey, everyone gets a co-pilot license, but also don't fuck up.

And people are terrified to actually try things when there is this incredible culture of fear around the cost of failure.