TIME’s report on Oracle’s mass layoffs is a warning sign. The story is not just “AI replaces workers” – it is more specific than that. Employees were reportedly asked to document workflows and train internal AI systems. Some were then laid off, losing income, healthcare security, visa stability, and unvested stock. That changes the ethics… Read More Expertise Extraction
Here’s the second of three posts about last week’s Learning Technologies Exhibition and Conference and it’s a reflection on Markus Bernhardt’s session that I was lucky enough to chair. Agentwashing was the word Markus Bernhardt used to open his session – not AI agents but agentwashing. His argument was quite precise. Most organisations cannot tell… Read More Agentwashing
Lori Niles-Hofmann showed a slide at Learning Technologies last week that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about. The lion of Gripsholm was preserved by a Swedish taxidermist in 1783. He’d never seen a lion so worked from a flag. The result looks like a lion; it has fur, four legs, and a mane.… Read More Lion Problems
In 2 to 3 years, some of the teenagers in this New York Times piece will be employees. They’re already using AI for productivity. As well as companionship, boredom relief, emotional processing, role play, fantasy, flirting, reassurance and escape. That creates a different starting point for work since some will arrive used to systems that… Read More Teen tech
The latest Fosway reports have come out, and if you work in L&D you need to be over them. There are three: They are, as always, comprehensive and way more intriguing below the headlines. David Perring from Fosway posted something worth considering last week. “Efficiency doesn’t matter and innovation is useless without delivering value.” He’s… Read More The wrong questions
Lost and Desperate 