Poll: Do you believe leadership and management roles will be affected by AI?
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Alex Lichanow
Alex Lichanow
Germany
Local time: 22:32
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No Jan 6

They have taken precautions to have "AI" only replace useful, productive workers.

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Iulia Parvu
Elaine Ruby
Ines Radionovas-Lagoutte, PhD
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Chris Spurgin
Thayenga
 
Richard Purdom
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Portugal
Local time: 21:32
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AI is changing everything Jan 6

Wow, a lot of people in denial.
AI won't put everyone out of work.
However, it will put put anyone with an office job who doesn't know how to use AI out of work, and pretty quickly too.


Jorge Payan
Ana Cravidao
Rachel Waddington
Maria Laura Curzi
Mohammad Naim
 
Maria Laura Curzi
Maria Laura Curzi
Argentina
Local time: 18:32
English to Spanish
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Yes, everything Jan 6

In my view, everything will be affected by AI, but that's not a negative thing.
For example, all current online traffic is affected by AI. Therefore, works related to advertising and SEO are affected by AI now at all role levels.

We'll just have to learn how to include AI in the way we work or do business. As it happened before when other technologies (such as personal computers, the Internet, and mobile phones) emerged.

What I don't understand is the implicit 'fe
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In my view, everything will be affected by AI, but that's not a negative thing.
For example, all current online traffic is affected by AI. Therefore, works related to advertising and SEO are affected by AI now at all role levels.

We'll just have to learn how to include AI in the way we work or do business. As it happened before when other technologies (such as personal computers, the Internet, and mobile phones) emerged.

What I don't understand is the implicit 'fear' towards AI.
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Philip Lees
 
Laureana Pavon
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Uruguay
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Affect vs. replace Jan 7

Alex Lichanow wrote:

They have taken precautions to have "AI" only replace useful, productive workers.


Leadership and management roles will not be replaced, but they will obviously affected. Indeed, they are already being affected.

Also, do you truly believe that managers are neither useful nor productive?


Maria Laura Curzi
Rachel Waddington
 
Daryo
Daryo
United Kingdom
Local time: 21:32
Serbian to English
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Just asking for a friend ... Jan 7

Richard Purdom wrote:

Wow, a lot of people in denial.
AI won't put everyone out of work.
However, it will put put anyone with an office job who doesn't know how to use AI out of work, and pretty quickly too.


Is drinking too much AI Kool-Aid also a form of denial?


 
Denis Fesik
Denis Fesik
Local time: 00:32
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So good to be in denial Jan 7

One thing I notice though is that while my posts expressing doubt about the almighty nature of AI do contain examples to show my point, most of 'em posts from AI advocates read something like "You just don't know how to use it. Learn how to use it and be replaced." But hey. I'm old-school. I want examples of how managers and leaders will affected—especially while trying to manage and lead someone like me

 
Rachel Waddington
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United Kingdom
Local time: 21:32
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hmm Jan 7

Richard Purdom wrote:

Wow, a lot of people in denial.


So far, only 18.7% of respondents have said that these roles won't be affected by AI, while 47.8% have said that they will (split between a bit, a lot and up to a point). So most people are not in denial about AI having an effect.

(I'm now wondering which is more, "a bit" or "up to a point").


Maria Laura Curzi
 
Maria Laura Curzi
Maria Laura Curzi
Argentina
Local time: 18:32
English to Spanish
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AI Tools Jan 7

Denis Fesik wrote:

One thing I notice though is that while my posts expressing doubt about the almighty nature of AI do contain examples to show my point, most of 'em posts from AI advocates read something like "You just don't know how to use it. Learn how to use it and be replaced." But hey. I'm old-school. I want examples of how managers and leaders will affected—especially while trying to manage and lead someone like me


I made two web searches:
#1 [leadership AI tools] got me 842,000,000 results > https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=leadership%20AI%20tools. From the first page I read about eight AI tool names intended for leaders from a wide range of leadership tasks: ChatGPT, Grammarly, Prezent, Bunch, Leaps, Copy.ai, Butterfly.ai, and Glassix.

#2 [management AI tools] got me 1,880,000,000 results > https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=management%20AI%20tools. Google SERP gives me a list of 21 AI tools names for project managers from a wide range of management tasks. For brainstorming: Asana, Notion, Taskade, Microsoft Project, Jira, Ayanza, and Forecast. For forecasting: ClickUp, Monday.com, Basecamp, Motion, and Grammarly. For visualizing progress: Trello, Wrike, ChatGPT, AiChatbot, Automate Tasks, Fireflies, and Otter.ai.

Now, we only need asking any project manager or leader if and how they use any of these AI tools to get down-to-earth examples.


 


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