Decision‑Making in the AI‑Native Era: From Experiment to Impact
On 5th June, I'm speaking at Rethink AI: Becoming AI-Native, a digital event brought to you by WIRED and Kyndryl . Joining a line-up of leading AI and business visionaries operating at the frontier of AI transformation, my session will explore decision making in the AI-native era for a dynamic digital event designed to move you beyond AI experimentation to real, scaled impact. Use the link below to register now and submit your questions: https://lnkd.in/eVke_mxm #RethinkAI
Blocking AI Drives Hidden Use, Not Compliance
Gallup polls say AI in the workplace crossed 50% in February, but your AI adoption numbers are probably lying to you. Not because anyone tampered with your dashboard, but because it's only counting the sanctioned surface. The approved tools, the...
Avoid AI Collapse: Keep Agents Diverse, Not Uniform
The hype around agentic AI keeps asking "is the AI agent smart?" That is the wrong question. The interesting question is "how many other agents is it agreeing with right this second?" If the answer is "all of them, on...
Leaders Win by Mastering Attention, Not Doing More
What's the leader's role in AI? As your AI agents begin to read between the lines of your life and your business, your role is not to do more. It is to see more clearly. To decide what matters. To...
April AI News Roundup: Serious & Hilarious Delivered Tomorrow
My April #AI #news roundup, a mix of stories that matter and things that are hilarious, will be delivered to subscribers' inboxes tomorrow morning: decision.substack.com
Powerful AI Demands Restraint, Not Blind Automation
The more powerful AI gets, the more valuable restraint becomes. All these new developments can sometimes trigger the wrong instinct: Automate all the things. Easy there 😄 Just because you can delegate to a machine doesn’t mean you’ve found leverage....
Join the AI Decision‑Making Conversation June 5
Excited to join this conversation on one of my favorite topics: helping organizations make better decisions with AI. Also one of my favorite activities: talking to clever people. Register now to join us on Friday, June 5th, at 1.30 PM...
AI Success Requires Skills, Context, Not Just Chatbots
"Stop being afraid of AI." #sponsored That's from Muralidhar Krishnaprasad (MK) President and CTO, Product Engineering at Salesforce . At #TDX26 , I sat down with MK to talk about what it actually takes to get out of pilot purgatory...
Centennial Creamery Leverages AI for Agile Growth
A 100-year-old creamery doesn’t sound like the place you’d expect to find an “agentic enterprise.” #sponsored And yet. At Salesforce #TDX26 , I sat down with Daniel Peter , CTO of Petaluma Creamery, to chat about a traditional business that’s...
Anthropic Withholds Powerful Model, Citing Capability Overhang Risks
Claude Mythos is basically a metal detector for ancient landmines... except the beach is the entire internet. Anthropic's monster new model has been withheld from public release and in this episode of AI from Anywhere, let's talk about why. In...
Rethink AI: Move Beyond Use‑Case Checklists
What if unlocking AI's potential isn't about finding the right use case, but about changing how you think? Most executives want a playbook. But with agentic AI, that instinct can work against you. These systems can't be solved with copy-paste...
Start with the Decision, Not the AI Tool
The easiest way to get AI wrong is to start with the tool. That’s where most teams begin. They lead with AI, then look for somewhere to use it. But real transformation doesn’t work that way. It starts with clarity:...
Incentives, Not Seams, Reveal Why Systems Fail
If seams tell you where a system breaks, objectives and incentives tell you why it breaks.
Start with Decisions, Let AI Serve Humans
AI should serve people. Obvious, right? And yet many organizations quietly do the opposite. They start with the tool. When you start with tools, humans end up serving the tools. When you start with decisions, tools serve humans. That sounds...
Compaction Summarizes Prompts, May Lose Safety Constraints
🤣 Chef's kiss: AI agent deletes AI security researcher's inbox while giving the rest of you an object lesson on what compaction is and isn't. ✅ Compaction IS when a model summarizes prompts, instructions, and context before proceeding. ❌ Compaction...