Gordon Bleu

If a Michelin-starred chef hands ingredients through a hatch and serves whatever comes back, is it their dish? It;s served on their plates, in their restaurant, at their prices. I put that to Don Taylor yesterday. He pushed back and I think he’s right.

I didn’t use AI

It’s in your search engine. Your word processor. Your browser. Your grammar checker. Your research platform. You didn’t choose to work in an AI-enabled environment – opening your laptop put you in it. So when a contract, partner, client, or associate says, “no AI,” what does that mean? It’s not about workflow – you might… Read More I didn’t use AI

You and AI

Public sector buyers are starting to ask a different question in tenders. Not just what will you deliver, but how was this bid produced? Specifically, was AI used, how was it used, and what checks were applied? That brings the process behind the submission into scope. The issue is not whether suppliers use AI –… Read More You and AI

Expertise Extraction

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

Agentwashing

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