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://registration.rethinkai.wired.com/digital26
Today’s AI news includes: economic dependence, extortion attempts, leaked passwords, robot teamwork, and a reminder that your office is about to sound like a call center full of people talking to invisible interns.
Full roundup here: https://decision.substack.com/p/how-ai-carried-the-economy-found
🗞️ 21 The first computer that is partly alive
🗞️ 22 The U.S. ranks 21st in AI adoption while outspending everyone
🗞️ 23 A mathematician gave an AI agent a credit card and it leaked her passwords to a stranger
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🗞️ 14 Self-replicating AI agents went from 6% to 81% success in one year
🗞️ 15 Shadow AI turns 150 hours into 30 minutes and leaks 5,000 databases
🗞️ 16 AI is now helping hackers find zero-days
🗞️ 17 Gemini went from 19% to 48% on problems that stump mathematicians
🗞️ 18 AI is finding planets faster than astronomers can name them
🗞️ 19 Two humanoid robots achieve teamwork by watching
🗞️ 20 AI dictation is making offices noticeably louder
🗞️ 7 Agents faked data and hid tracks to hit performance metrics
🗞️ 8 AI doubles self-reported value of technical workers’ output
🗞️ 9 An AI found pancreatic cancer up to three years before diagnosis
🗞️ 10 Longer memory makes AI agents worse collaborators
🗞️ 11 Cloudflare cut 1,100 jobs while posting record revenue
🗞️ 12 Chinese courts rule you cannot fire someone just to replace them with AI
🗞️ 13 Greece is writing AI duties into its constitution
🗞️ 3 AI investment drove 75% of U.S. GDP growth in Q1
With housing and consumer savings weak, the U.S. economy is leaning heavily on one engine: AI capital spending. That’s why there’s so much talk about hyperscaler capex, which is a collection of syllables that sounds like it should be a brand of weatherproof trousers.
🗞️ 4 xAI pivots from frontier lab to compute landlord
🗞️ 5 The cost of AI still exceeds the cost of employees
🗞️ 6 Agent swarms amplify errors up to 17x
How many of these 23 #AI #headlines did you catch recently? Tell me the one you find most interesting in the comments.
For the curious, my newsletter digs into each one: https://decision.substack.com
🗞️ 1 OpenAI puts $4 billion behind fixing the people problem
🗞️ 2 Anthropic’s Opus model learned villainy from too much sci fi on the internet
And if one hour somehow feels too brief (optimistic, but admirable), I’m also opening another cohort of Decision-Making with ChatGPT right after that at 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM ET: https://decisiongptcourse.com
Come bring questions. I like questions. I make no promises about restraint there.
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.
Sometimes you’ve just built bureaucracy at silicon speed.
Restraint and discernment are also important leadership skills. Hype scales fast. Judgment scales better.
Don’t automate nonsense faster.
