Thought-provoking Things Worth Sharing - Issue #78
Thought-provoking Things Worth Sharing - Issue #78
Will our online experience soon involve only AI and no other people?
The more I read about Generative AI, the more I wonder what the internet will look like in the next couple of years. Will I set up a chatbot to interact with a website to place an order interacting with another chatbot? Will I pop into my RSS reader or favorite social media platform to be regaled with stories and information put there by a bot that no human has ever touched?
Will the AI-generated newsreaders reading AI-generated news stories on BBC World Service tell their stories to my bot, which will then synthesize them and give me the AI-generated short version?
Will anything involve actual people anymore?
I’ll still be here because the act of writing matters to me:
This Blog Post Was Not Written Using AI
Asking a chatbot to write this post wouldn’t give me mental exercise. It would remove the challenge of figuring out what I want to say and how I want to say it.
What about you?
Elsewhere around the net -
Careers and the Workplace
Linked - Resignations Can Become Contagious
Humans don't handle uncertainty well. They will seek out the path that has more certainty. You're either providing that, or you're not. If you're not, you're losing one of the important factors that impact retention. There's a reason resignations are contagious. There's a reason they go up right after layoffs or significant managerial change. We don't like feeling uncertain.
This is from a few years ago, but as I mentioned in the previous post - Uncertainty Causes People to Do Strange Things
Give Employees a Better Employee Experience - “Because it takes people to earn profits.”
Linked – Wellbeing Programs: Are Organizations Addressing the Cause
“Bottom line: Organizations can design and implement workplace wellness and wellbeing programs that look great on a slide deck, but they will only have impact if the organizational culture and structures support it. Employees will figure this out. “
The Real Reasons Behind Low Performance (And How To Help) - Helping a low performer improve might be less expensive than replacing them.
U.S. Employee Engagement Needs a Rebound in 2023 - I’m not sure layoffs are the way to go here.
Mental Health at Work
It’s Time For Employers To Support Your Mental Health - There’s a youth mental health crisis, which means your future employees and the children of your current employees are at risk.
We have a problem spotting misinformation in general, but we must get mental health information right - Can you Spot Mental Health Misinformation?
Also, another reminder - The Best Way to Boost Workers’ Mental Health Is to Give Them Good Managers
Training? Who needs Training?
Privacy, Security, and Legal
Speaking of mental health, this isn't very comforting. - Linked – A researcher tried to buy mental health data. It was surprisingly easy.
Evolving cybersecurity threats require modern defences
Dennis Kennedy is celebrating 20 years of blogging by offering a free PDF version of his book - Free PDF of My Successful Innovation Outcomes in Law Book
Until next week, and Happy Mardi Gras!