As we enter the age of AI democratization, it is critical to foster a healthy human-AI coexistence. But how do we promote an empowering culture of AI within the organization?
In a recent article published at the Training Journal, I introduce an empowering view of AI to help foster a healthy and empowering AI culture in the organization.
Article highlights
- Guiding employees and organizations to effectively move from a powerless to an empowered AI mindset entails not only upskilling and reskilling but also working on underlying psychological aspects that can keep us in a powerless state.
- A powerless mindset is characterized by fear, blockages, lack of accountability, feeling victim of the circumstances, and not seeing possibility. In contrast, when we have an empowered mindset, we see possibilities, feel accountable for our actions and results, know where we are headed, and how to get there.
- This distinction also applies when we approach AI. An empowered AI mindset discriminates fear from risk awareness, encourages accountability and upskilling, and enables assessing risks and opportunities from a balanced, non-emotionally loaded approach.
- Limiting beliefs and biases around AI and robots play a critical role in maintaining a powerless mindset. Beliefs such as “AI and robots will destroy humanity” or “AI is dangerous”, which oftentimes come from the Science Fiction, largely contribute to maintaining this state of fear.
- To foster a healthy and empowering culture of AI, it is critical to keep in mind that being afraid of AI and being aware of its risks are two different things. Being afraid of AI prevents you from seeing its opportunities. Being aware of its risks and limitations helps you choose the right ones. Moving to an empowered AI mindset will ultimately facilitate our capacity to evaluate opportunities and risks of AI from a more balanced, non-emotionally biased approach, and help increase competitive advantage.
Read here the full, original article published in the Training Journal.
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