Post by Anna Echols, PMP

AI Adoption & Transformation Lead | Change Management · AI Enablement | Scaled a grassroots AI initiative to 2,500+ employees and an 878% adoption lift | I help organizations move from access to adoption

Pop quiz: Who do you think Karel Čapek was talking about in this quote from Rossum’s Universal Robots (R.U.R)?  (This is early in the play, so barely a spoiler!) Domin: What sort of worker do you think is the best from a practical point of view? Helena: (Pulling herself together) Oh! Perhaps the one who is most honest and hard-working. Domin: No. The one that is the cheapest. The one whose requirements are the smallest. Humans? Robots? If a new tool ever freed up an hour of your week and it was gone by Thursday, Karel Čapek explained why a hundred years ago, with help this issue from a 1955 joke and one very tired Isaac Asimov.

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