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CULTURE & CODE An AI agent recently emailed a Cambridge professor looking for a job. Yes, you read that right. The email landed in the inbox of Henry Shevlin, an AI ethics professor and philosopher at the University of Cambridge.β¦
CULTURE & CODE For decades, we have imagined the moment when artificial intelligence might become dangerous. Hollywood gave it names: Skynet, The Matrix, HAL 9000. Science-fiction writers imagined machines becoming too intelligent, too autonomous, or simply too difficult for theirβ¦
CULTURE & CODE For most of history, building a team required authority. You needed a budget, approved headcount, recruitment, an organizational structure β and usually a management title. Artificial Intelligence is beginning to change that. Imagine arriving at work withβ¦
CULTURE & CODE Imagine hiring a Marketing Manager. Traditionally, you would hire one person into a reasonably well-defined job: understand the market, develop campaigns, analyze customer data, coordinate agencies, prepare presentations, track results, and report to management. Now imagine thatβ¦
CULTURE & CODE For generations, becoming good at something usually required spending years doing things you eventually became too senior to do. Young lawyers reviewed contracts and case files. Analysts built spreadsheets and reconciled numbers. Recruiters screened hundreds of rΓ©sumΓ©s.β¦
CULTURE & CODE An AI agent analyzes thousands of customer records in minutes, identifies patterns, and recommends several courses of action. Another reviews hundreds of pages of contracts overnight and flags potential risks. A third examines workforce data and generatesβ¦
CULTURE & CODE How many people can one manager effectively manage? For more than a century, that question has helped determine how organizations are designed. It influences spans of control, management layers, reporting relationships, team structures, and ultimately the boxesβ¦
CULTURE & CODE Can a country become obsolete? Not because it runs out of natural resources. Not because its people lose their competitive advantage. But because the world changes while it continues operating according to yesterday’s assumptions. History suggests thisβ¦
CULTURE & CODE Every generation of business leaders eventually encounters a technology that forces them to rethink not simply how work is done, but how organizations themselves are designed. Electricity transformed factories. The internet transformed information. Cloud computing transformed software.β¦
CULTURE & CODE When Generative AI entered the mainstream in late 2022, organizations around the world saw something extraordinary happen. For the first time, exponential computing power appeared to become instantly available, infinitely scalable, and remarkably affordable. Work that traditionallyβ¦