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Why the 5 core elements of “psychological safety” are essential for career and company
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Artificial IntelligenceEveryone has their own favorite pivot story. Twitter was a podcast curator that turned to social networking; Flickr was an online roleplaying game and pivoted to photo-sharing; and Shopify once just sold snowboards. Heck, even Johannes Gutenberg pivoted from selling relics to inventing the printing press when he saw an opportunity. Pivoting is as old as good business — if you want to get rich and stay rich, you have to sway a little. Pivots — wh…See the Story
How to pivot like a ballerina in the turbulent age of AI
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Hanover, New Hampshire · HanoverLast week, I discussed the making of the atomic bomb with 65 students taking my class at Dartmouth. The goal was to contrast the scientific challenge of building the bomb during the Manhattan Project with the decision to drop two bombs in Japan. The essential tension is that, even though scientists created the bomb, they had little to no say in how it was (or was not) to be used. If you’ve watched Oppenheimer, this point was made quite clear in …See the Story
Humanity needs an ethical upgrade to keep up with new technologies
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Artificial Intelligence · PhiladelphiaEthan Mollick, professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and author of “Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI,” explores the impact of AI on our work, creative endeavors, and overall lives. AI is reshaping our understanding of humanity and intelligence, evolving from simple prediction tools to sophisticated large language models, but how do we keep it from dooming us all? Should we be more afraid of it, or are we a…See the Story
Why apathy and fear are the two most useless positions on AI
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Why we need a trusted new leadership plan for redesigning work
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Illinois · IllinoisThere are many aspects of reality that we once assumed we understood, only for it to later be revealed that our earlier understanding was primitive, incomplete, and facile. We thought that nature was purely classical and deterministic, but the wave nature of light, and later the wholehearted discovery of quantum physics, painted a deeper picture of reality. We once thought that atoms made up everything; now we know that atoms are simply one set …See the Story
8 basic unanswered questions about the known particles
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Narva · NarvaYou’ve probably never heard of Baltoscandia. It sounds like a made-up country, and that’s because it is a made-up country. But even without a government, a flag, and most other trappings of actual nationhood, Baltoscandia has a history, a raison d’être, and perhaps even a future.
Narva Castle in Estonia (left) facing the medieval fortifications of Ivangorod in Russia (right). In recent weeks, Russia has contested the exact course of the border…See the Story
Baltoscandia: The geopolitical ghost that may just have a future
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