Your Executives Are Faking It on AI. The Machines Aren't Waiting
By Wendy Lynch, PhD
Three out of four C-suite executives recently admitted, in a confidential survey, that they hadprojected more confidence in their AI strategy than they actually felt. Seventy-four percent. Read that again: by their own account, most of the people signing off on AI are acting on mission-critical issues they do not understand.
That would be an ordinary human problem (leaders have always bluffed through things they didn't fully grasp), except for one detail. The technology they are pretending to understand now acts on its own, at machine speed. The fastest recorded security “breakout,” the moment an intruder spreads across a network, is now 27 seconds. You cannot fake your way through a decision that has to be made faster than you can convene a meeting.
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