Category Archives: FutureOfWork@Risk – Greg Hutchins

#417 – AUTHORS/PUBLISHERS – CAREERS DISRUPTED – CAPERS JONES

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The first major discussion about artificial intelligence (AI) took place on the Campus of Dartmouth College in 1956.  One  result of this meeting was funding by the U.S. and British governments for AI research.   The participants in the 1956 meeting included Claude Shannon and Nathan Rochester from IBM, Marvin Minsky, John McCarthy, and others.   McCarthy proposed the term “artificial intelligence” which was accepted by the group. Continue reading →

#417 – PROJECT MANAGER <=> RISK MANAGER – GREG HUTCHINS

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True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winston Churchill – British Prime Minister

Do you agree with these assertions? In VUCA time, all work is risk work. By extension, all management is now risk management. And, all project management is risk management. Continue reading →

#416 – ONLY THE PARANOID SURVIVE – GREG HUTCHINS PE CERM

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Your mind is working its best when you’re being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.
Banksy – Street Artist

Healthy paranoia is a necessary condition during these disruptive times.  Paranoia is not a medicated condition. Paranoia is not a psychiatric condition. Paranoia is awareness of life disruptions that provide direction in how you work, respond, sustain, improve, and even excel. Continue reading →

#415 – GENERATIVE AI: 5 ESSENTIAL READS – ERIC SMALLEY

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The light and dark sides of AI have been in the public spotlight for many years. Think facial recognition, algorithms making loan and sentencing recommendations, and medical image analysis. But the impressive – and sometimes scary – capabilities of ChatGPT, DALL-E 2 and other conversational and image-conjuring artificial intelligence programs feel like a turning point. Continue reading →

#412 – RISE OF THE NEO-LUDDITES – GREG HUTCHINS

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We have displacement and a failure to create shared prosperity, but we are not heading to an economy without human labor anytime soon.
Daron Acemoglu – MIT professor

We’re on a Tech Futures voyage driven by COVID and AI, which will unleash a lot more tech. And, it’ll be a bumpy ride. People won’t like it and don’t want it. Let’s go back to our Handy Work Model and look at significant upside and downside risks: Continue reading →