IBM will replace 8,000 jobs with AI in the next 3 years says CEO
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We all know that many jobs can be automated in time, but few people are prepared for when it happens to them … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, ...
Nestle uses AI to set the creative rules for their 15,000 strong marketing team
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In this situation who’s in control – the AI or the humans? Is Nestles marketing team now just slaves to the AI’s whims? Things to think about … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read...
The people tasked with training AI are outsourcing their work to AI
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Humans are lazy and by getting AI to do their work for them the people who are supposed to be training AI are opening up a Pandoras box of problems. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential...
Invisible AI helps cars makers see what machines and humans do wrong
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Increasingly we are using machines to watch human and machine workers and autonomously monitor their performance, report on it, and make interventions. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch...
DAO’s could soon get legal standing under new California law
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF DAO’s are a “newish” form of decentralised or “headless” organisation and California wants to profit and benefit from them so is introducing new legislation to approve and regulate them. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University,...
MIT and Stanford ChatGPT study shows low skilled workers benefit the most
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF When it comes to new technologies and work it’s often the lowest skilled workers that suffer first and are automated, but this time they could be the biggest beneficiaries. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University,...
Morgan Stanley starts deploying ChatGPT for 16,000 financial advisors
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF By using ChatGPT to augment their human workers Morgan Stanley hopes to give its staff access to expertise and knowledge that was previously out of their reach. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about...
To beat Microsoft Google bakes a ton of new AI productivity tools into its app suite
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Microsoft and OpenAI have landed a body blow to Google, and the company’s now desperately trying to catch up with its rivals. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch...
Maryland wants to be the first US state to switch to a four day working week
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Working a four day week has shown to boost employee happiness and productivity, so now some locations want it to be the norm. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, ...
Futurist Keynote, UK: The Future Workforce with HM Government, DWP
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In this keynote session with the UK Government futurist Matthew Griffin discusses how technology is changing how companies hire, manage, and fire people, and how the workforce is changing for better and worse. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself...
Futurist Keynote, Valencia: The Future of Work with Discover
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In this keynote futurist Matthew Griffin discusses how new technologies and trends are fundamentally re-writing how businesses run and operate, what that means for the human workforce, and why automation could be the best thing for human potential in human history. Love the Exponential...
McDonalds opens it’s first mostly automated restaurant in Texas
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF One day all McDonalds could be fully automated … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. One day your local McDonalds could be a so called...
First of a kind study shows humans and AI are better together when it comes to work
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We hear all the time how AI and robots will replace all our jobs but not how it will help us become super humans at work, this is a great experiment … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with...
The worlds first virtual CEO takes the reigns at a Chinese gaming company
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Why should it be humans that run companies, especially when some of us are good at running those companies into the ground? Now it’s AI and the robots turn. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University,...
Futurist Keynote, London: The Future of Work and the Workforce, ASM
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF During this keynote session keynote speaker Matthew Griffin discusses the future of work and the workforce, and shines the spotlight on the technologies and workplace experiments that will transform how and where we work, and who and what we work with. Love the Exponential...
China is using autonomous 3D printers and robots to print a giant hydroelectric dam
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF China has huge ambitions to be able to print buildings, and this is its biggest project so far. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, subscribe to the podcast, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, ...
The FBI warns people are using DeepFakes to apply for remote tech jobs
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF When you hire someone you give them money, as in a wage, and access to your systems, so what happens when those people aren’t who they seem to be? Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, subscribe to the podcast, future proof yourself...
The UK is running the biggest four day work week trial ever
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF For a long time now people have focused too much on how long you work rather than your actual productivity, so new trials are testing old theories. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about...
Working in the Metaverse gets closer as Microsoft goes all in
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The future of work is arguably virtual, more specifically AR and VR, and companies are lining up to dominate this new world. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch...
Futurist Keynote, Bahrain: The Future of Work and the Workplace, Bahrain Govt
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The future of work and the workplace will be very different from what we see today, and while many worry about the threat of automation there are more upsides than downsides. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses...
