I get it. Many places likely won’t bother checking your references. However, some will, and can you afford to miss an opportunity because you didn’t consider who you were listing as a reference, or weren’t sure what they would say about you?
There are people around us every day dealing with burdens we have no clue about. This includes people who work for you. Those burdens don’t disappear the second they cross the threshold into the workplace. They come to work with us, and they have an impact on us. Caring workplaces find ways to help, not hinder.
The challenge, of course, is who is driving the strategy? If firm leadership isn’t driving it, you could wind up with AI adoption being pushed from the ground up, and strategic decisions being left to IT personnel or a Tech committee that lacks the authority to make those decisions. In the vacuum of leadership on AI adoption, though, someone will step in.
It just might not be the people who are making the most strategic decisions for your firm.
My advice to you is to find the content that gives you hope, even if it’s just content that makes you laugh. We need more of that and a lot less outrage.
The culture you describe would be working toward solutions to the epidemic of burnout and anxiety. Especially the stress that results from financial instability, caregiving responsibilities, and discrimination, to name a few. A good workplace culture addresses these issues by providing a living wage, flexibility, and equal opportunities, among other benefits related to quality mental health care.
An app doesn’t show that you care, and if you don’t care, you have no culture.
I don’t particularly care what side of the political aisle you’re on. If we can’t all agree that using fake images and videos in situations like this is beyond the pale, we are sunk. If law enforcement can create evidence and get away with it, no one is free.
We are all one image away from prison. Is that the world AI is creating? ?