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This just in from our CEO, Dr. David Rock: Hi everyone, I am just back from the Imagination in Action (IIA) event at MIT in Cambridge. https://lnkd.in/eJsxc59Q What a great community. There's another one of these at Stanford mid September, and then back in Davos January next year. I'm planning to be at both. Was fun spending an evening and a day with big brains thinking about the future of technology. Some of my insights: - Universal use of AI might be like the birth of widespread electricity use, which reduced physical labor and upended existing work forces, but ultimately was a positive thing for humanity as a whole. AI will likely reduce a lot of mental labor. It will also upend workforces, but ultimately will be positive for humanity as a whole. That said, we might need mental gyms as a result. - Everyone is aware that AI transformation is more of a human challenge than a technical one. Yet few people are thinking about solutions. - There are three basic cognitive challenges to solve, if you want to make a lot of people AI fluent, in a way that makes them smarter and not the opposite. First, it's a threat challenge. We need to turn down the inherent threats in this new space. Second, it's a capacity challenge. We need to learn to work within human capacity limits better. And third, it's a habit activation challenge. We need to focus on the right habits, build them the right way, and scale them just right too. - HR leaders are starting to have AI transformation as part of their job title. That's probably a good thing, seeing as this is innately a human issue. My team at NLI has recently launched a research briefing on AI Fluency and AI Transformation. This is free to select organizations. We have a lot of research now that helps find the signal in the noise, that we can share with a leadership or HR team virtually in an hour. Direct message me if you'd like to learn more. Finally, speaking of big thoughts about AI, if you missed last week's insightful conversation with Diane Gherson, ex-CHRO of IBM, you can listen to it here. Was an even more deep and thoughtful than I expected. https://lnkd.in/eTxTfe7Z There's also a summary by a listener here: https://lnkd.in/eVP873Uu Would love to see what people think about any of the above - feel free to comment. #ImaginationInAction #neuroleadership