I get it. Every day, there’s someone in Big AI telling us that AI is going to either replace you or kill you. Every other day, the tool you use to do your job changes. On the off days, announcements about new products that will revolutionize everything and make employers need fewer employees mix with…
What do your AI chats say about you? Would you want someone else reading them and drawing their own conclusions? Maybe take a look at how long you keep them.
There’s the obvious privacy issue with public AI tools, but people often overlook another reality: at work, someone likely has the same access to your AI interactions as they do to your email and Teams messages. As a company using AI, you’re also responsible for all that data. You must protect it, keep it private, and, if required, collect it in response to a lawsuit or investigation.
Are you prepared to do that?
The bigger issue, however, is meetings where little thought has gone into how they’re run. Especially the regularly scheduled meetings, like weekly project updates. It’s easy for those meetings to become such a routine task that we don’t think much about them beforehand, and then we just go through the motions, following the agenda without considering where the team is or what they need. We’ve all been guilty of this. I’m no different.
It’s almost as if the meeting is for us as leaders, and not the rest of the team, which I don’t think is a good way to run a meeting.
Frankly, AI will be an expensive way to learn that your underlying processes or data were suspect all along.
I love this year’s theme: Don’t Make It Easy for Them. https://www.staysafeonline.org/cybersecurity-awareness-month I remember growing up and hearing adults I knew in law enforcement talk about someone breaking into your house. The general consensus then was that a house alarm or car alarm wouldn’t stop someone skilled and dead set on getting into your house…