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ZDNET's key takeaways
Designing healthy relationships between humans and AI will require formalizing business practices.
The future of work is humans and AIs as colleagues, co-creating value.
Agentic AI governance must clarify shared responsibility and accountability.
First, Dr. Vint Cerf, one of the Internet's co-creators, observes that with AI, "It feels like we've encountered a new life form and we're trying to figure out how it thinks." It's worth noting that our work and business relationships with AI might differ from human relationships.
Second, Dr. David Bray, a tech leader with success in challenging environments including the 9/11 response, Anthrax in 2001, and modernization of the FCC, recommends that "Maybe instead of calling it artificial intelligence, we should call it alien interactions. Because that way we will not try to anthropomorphize the machine."
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These two observations, taken together, suggest that how we approach AI will determine which companies succeed in the future.
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