"Now you could see the same effect on lots of white-collar work. Think translators, web designers, lawyers, coders, accountants, copywriters, or HR professionals. The skills developed through advanced degrees or years of experience in a specific role or company might soon be embedded into a generative AI tool, lowering the bar to entry. “—It's becoming clear that AI is going to whack the mediocre middle of office workers
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"the AI tool based its suggestions on the work style and outputs of the company’s most productive agents, and therefore spread their pattern of behavior to newer and less skilled workers” (Measuring the productivity impact of generative AI)
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"Relationships rank first in terms of workplace quality and job satisfaction. Do business leaders today have an obligation to offer deeper social connection at work?"
—The Economic Impact Of Loneliness: Office Relationships Vs. Chat GPT
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"durable skills—my preferred term—are essential. And in an automation-focused future, they’ll be even more so."
—The Soft Skills “Debate” Is Over
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"In the digital era, the leader as an organizational midwife is typically a chief experience officer or a people leader who takes on the role and responsibilities of someone who nurtures a culture in which decisions on how something should and should not be used are made deliberately and intentionally by everyone.” (The art of leading in the AI age)
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"Rob Thomas, the chief commercial officer at IBM, said managers who use AI will replace managers who don't."
(https://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-managers-who-use-ai-will-replace-those-who-dont-2023-5)
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"They all had websites. They all had e-commerce. They spend hundreds of millions of dollars on it, but they didn’t rethink. And so, I think the question becomes, can you rethink? Can you rethink processes?"
(https://hbr.org/podcast/2023/05/how-generative-ai-changes-productivity)
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"How do we move from, oh my goodness. It is so much easier to make a deck now, to organizations achieving unimagined scale thanks to generative AI."
(https://hbr.org/podcast/2023/05/how-generative-ai-changes-productivity)
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"KARIM LAKHANI: Yeah, I would say the cost of cognition, the cost of creativity is going to massively decline with generative AI."
(https://hbr.org/podcast/2023/05/how-generative-ai-changes-productivity)
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"Accenture, a professional services company, states that large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT-4, have the potential to impact up to 40% of all working hours. "This is because language tasks account for 62% of the total time employees work," the company said."
(https://www.techtimes.com/articles/291190/20230505/world-economic-forum-wef-reveals-top-10-jobs-ai-replace.htm)
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