• LATEST RESEARCH ON RAMIFICATIONS OF AI, based on an 8-month study of work habits for 200 employees at a U.S. technology company, found that they worked at a faster pace and took on a broader scope of tasks, felt more pressure and busier than before but voluntarily extended workhours, with AI making ‘doing more’ feel possible and, for some, intrinsically rewarding, However, reality so far is that AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it, and enthusiastic adoption can be unsustainable, causing problems down the line, from risks of: (1) letting work informally expand and accelerate, while masking silent workload creep; (2) growing cognitive strain as employees juggle multiple AI-enabled workflows; (3) over time, impairing judgment, and increasing the likelihood of errors; (4) making it harder for organizations to distinguish genuine productivity gains from unsustainable intensity; and (5) causing a cumulative effect of fatigue, burnout, and a growing sense that work is harder to step away from especially as organizational expectations for speed and responsiveness rise. Collectively, AI may lead to workload creep, cognitive fatigue, and weakened decision making. [HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW]
• ANOTHER ASPECT OF IMPLEMENTING AI RELATES TO COMPANY & ORGANIZATION BOARDS: “Using AI does not reduce Governance, it magnifies it! While embedding optimization logic into AI systems that operate at machine speed (whether to allocate attention, prioritize customers, recommend actions, negotiate tradeoffs, or shape decisions before human review ever occurs) for the objective of maximizing efficiency or throughput, artificial intelligence simply executes selected goals based on judgments about priorities, tradeoffs and acceptable risk – areas that are responsibilities of the Board Directors, who remain responsible for consequential decisions being based (presumably) on their diverse perspectives from financial, operational, cultural, legal and strategic angles. AI does not originate judgement, only executes what it is told to pursue, and as consequences scale, governance magnifies continuously.” https://savionai.substack.com/p/the-board-still-owns-the-judgment
• TODAY’S MESS OF SOCIETAL CONFUSION comes from “choices made under conditions that virtually guarantee failure, resulting from contradictory rules/ regulations/ taxation/ and wars, based on lack of any Reality basis to formulate effective problem resolutions. Perspectives are based on reason and feeling, both inherently unreliable, while we operate out of a pattern recognition system that becomes so-called Truth. But reality is that nothing is ever ‘true,’ except under certain circumstances, and then only from a particular viewpoint, characteristically unstated. Our decision-making process is a function of consciousness itself, with choices based on millions of pieces of data far beyond conscious comprehension, so societies ask the same questions century after century, making choices based on expediency, statistical fallacy, sentiment, political or media pressure, personal prejudice and vested interest that virtually guarantee failure.” [DAVID HAWKINS – POWER VS FORCE]
• AN ASTONISHING, ALMOST UNBELIEVABLE REPORT on just released Federal files which identify life-changing medical experiments, purportedly including cures for cancer, Alzheimer, Aging, Arthritis and more, withheld by FDA since they were developed from natural products versus patented pharmaceuticals. https://new.hsimembership.com/p/HSIMAHA0126/LHSI262000000103
• THOUGHTS FOR THE WEEK: $115 million in California tax dollars and $175 million in Covid funds has gone to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), a non-profit whose programs include indoctrination of high school activists, funding college students mobilized to push legislation for mass amnesty, and a Rapid Response network aiming to shut down Detention Centers. [TOWNHALL]
• “Self-help books hold up an unflattering mirror to society, telling us a little about who we want to be, and even more about who we actually are, generally offering an archeology of anxiety. There is some slim evidence they can help selves, but the effects are small. Most suggest that what makes people happy is ‘unselfing’ – when attention is turned away from yourself into the world, like playing with a pet or children, taking a walk in nature, going to theatre or socializing.” [ECONOMIST]
• Virtual Reality (VR) is like wearing a digital blindfold – it blots out the real world and immerses the user in an alternative, computer-generated reality. Augmented Reality (AR), by contrast, superimposes computer-generated elements onto your view of the real world. Mixed reality (XR or MR) goes a step further by allowing real and virtual items to interact. Deepfakes are not an outgrowth of MR, but rather are synthetic media (video, audio, images) generated or altered using AI deep learning neural networks to make someone appear to say or do something they never did.