Ai Readiness

Will the future favor better AI, or better-managed AI? Imagine two companies buy access to exactly the same AI tomorrow. Same models. Same capabilities. Same agents. A year later, one has transformed how work gets don…

Is critical thinking still a competitive advantage? I've been thinking about a strange consequence of giving everyone access to increasingly capable AI. We often assume that better AI reduces the value of human thinkin…

Are we building autonomous agents faster than we are learning to manage them? For a long time, I assumed the hardest part of AI would be building more capable systems. If agents could reason better, plan better, and op…

𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗼𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝗗𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗔𝗜 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗱𝗼. China has introduced a national system that gives humanoid robots unique 29-character identity codes. Each code identifies the coun…

AI doesn’t fix bad data. It scales it. Everyone wants to become AI-first—adding copilots, agents and automations as quickly as possible. But AI is only the visible part of the tree. The real strength comes from what si…

Will the future favor better AI, or better-managed AI? Imagine two companies buy access to exactly the same AI tomorrow. Same models. Same capabilities. Same agents. A year later, one has transformed how work gets don…

Most companies have an AI plan. Few have AI-ready leaders. That was the clearest takeaway from the Georgia AI Alliance Monthly Networking Lunch. And this photo captures why. AI readiness is not built by one function…

AI skills became the biggest driver. Here's what that actually means The numbers are no longer subtle. Jobs requiring AI skills are growing nearly 8x faster than the overall job market — 69% vs 9% — across more than a …

Your AI governance policy exists. Your organization's behavior doesn't match it. McKinsey just put a number on the gap. Enterprise Responsible AI maturity averages 2.3 out of 4 in 2026, up from 2.0. But fewer than a t…

What if the biggest barrier to AI is not technology, but management? I've become less interested in why AI systems fail. I'm increasingly interested in what happens immediately after they fail. An agent makes one visi…