AI Can Think. Can the Enterprise Decide? [Video]

by Irving Waldawsky-Berger

AI can analyze more information than any executive has ever had. Does that mean it should make our decisions?

Two Old Cuban Execs, Fireside Chat #6

Two Old Cuban IT Executives
Dr.Irving Wladawsky-Berger and Honorio J. Padrón III
In Fireside Chat #6, Irving Wladawsky-Berger (former IBM senior executive) and Honorio J. Padrón III (seven-time CIO/CTO, founder of ExperienceBypass) talk about management in the AI era. They draw on more than 50 years of experience across the computer revolution, the internet, and now AI. They cover what the dot-com bubble teaches us about hype, why the airplane is the right model for the AI-enabled enterprise, why “AI went rogue” is often just a software bug, and why decision authority stays with humans even as most routine decisions can be codified and automated.

The message is simple: do not fear AI, and do not hand it your judgment. The opportunity is to rethink how your enterprise decides.

Video Chapters:

0:00 Introduction
1:18 Powerful technology vs. its impact
3:01 Lessons from the dot-com bubble
6:35 NASA flight simulation and the engineered enterprise
11:23 Technology does not have judgment
13:44 Codify the routine 80%, escalate the rest
17:09 Information can be sourced, authority cannot
21:22 Is AI really “intelligent”?
27:26 Hallucinations, rogue AI, and software bugs
32:40 Regulating AI: the market-driven approach
37:12 Why enterprises are still early with AI
44:13 Research, caution, and global competition
46:16 Final words: the decision layer

View the Irving’s and Honorio’s AI insights in the video below:

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