📡 No.338 — Is AI Progress Slowing Down? ⊗ Future Orientation ⊗ the Power of Critical Sensemaking

“The Official Future” tells us to “think exponentially, act incrementally,” beckoning us to utilize foresight in service of the ever-expanding present systems of quantifying, micro-analyzing, extracting, consuming, and automating. This way of futuring is at the heart of Epistemic Uncertainty. “The Emergent Future” instead challenges us to “ think t... See more

I like how Oguz Acar, professor at King’s Business School advocated for a more balanced approach to adopting AI in an HBR article last year. Instead of being “AI-first”, he suggested, follow the 3Ps of being “problem-centric, people-first, and principle-driven” in how to adopt AI.

How do we get beyond the social and cultural differences noted at the beginning of this chapter, to meet the demands of the critical transitional challenges posed by existential issues such as climate change, inequality, energy transition, the need to educate and provide health support to billions, etc, and to reach the more fruitful ground of tang

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What we urgently need in all ranks of leadership, both in corporate and government, is the ability to imagine futures that see the messiness of being human not as an inefficiency to be optimised away but as an essential friction that weaves the fabric of genuine human experience.