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CEOs Say AI Is Making Work More Efficient, Employees Tell a Different Story

CEOs Say AI Is Making Work More Efficient, Employees Tell a Different Story

What will they do all day Wish list for diana Two Wall Street Journal stories got me thinking. When you read them together, they explain why so many companies feel stuck with AI, or feel further along than they really are. One story quotes tech leaders arguing that what a CEO does might be “one of the easier things” for AI to do. Sundar Pichai said it. Sam Altman doubled down and talked about an AI running divisions, even entire…

Future of Health: Why Health and Communication are at Risk with AI, and without Augmented Intelligence

Future of Health: Why Health and Communication are at Risk with AI, and without Augmented Intelligence

By Gustavo Meirelles, Futuro da Saúde After a few years of enchantment with artificial intelligence, 2026 begins to impose an adjustment of expectations. At SXSW, in Austin, the discourse changed: less dazzle, more questioning. One of the most relevant provocations came from anthropologist and futurist Brian Solis, in the session “Augmented IQ: Scaling Human + AI Potential”. Solis went straight to the point, and brought a necessary annoyance to the audience: we are using AI to automate the past, not…

Why AI Darwinism Needs a Mindshift, and why You Can’t Automate Your Way to Business Model Innovation

Why AI Darwinism Needs a Mindshift, and why You Can’t Automate Your Way to Business Model Innovation

When Richie Cotton asked me on DataCamp’s DataFramed podcast how I stay afloat with everything happening in AI, I joked that I wear “AI floaties.” Thirty tabs open. New “state of AI’ reports I need to read. Breakthroughs I need to understand. Every day, there’s a new model, a new breakthrough, a new viral article with a new “this changes everything” or “this is the end of…” headline. Honestly, I’m struggling to keep afloat too with all the AI advancements…