Like everyone, we’re doing our best to keep pace with AI. And we want to stay transparent about it.
Our Principles Around AI
We are simultaneously curious, enthusiastic, critical, and cautious about AI. Our AI engagement will always solely prioritize these things:
- AI improving all lives and supporting positive health, justice, equality, and dignity;
- AI to augment, not replace, human creativity, ingenuity, and life-affirming contributions;
- A deep appreciation that wellbeing is not about transactional speed; offloading curiosity, inquiry, and growth; or ego-driven hubris or domination. In other words, life is beautiful, messy, and worth living fully. It’s about nurturing relationships, creatively challenging each other, changing our minds and beliefs, and perpetually growing into better world citizens. AI will not and should not replace that.
- AI regulation and policy matter. We support progressive voices asserting AI privacy, equity, justice, safety, protections, and humanizing transformations around work.
AI is more than a tool, obviously. It’s a way to re-imagine the ways we live and interact in the world. Art of Management commits to keeping pace with AI advances, opportunities, threats, and ambitions.
We’re not into AI for surveillance, privacy-hacks, or Big Brother tactics to dehumanize or discriminate. Sure, some folks may use AI that way, but we won’t engage or support any such things, especially related to our partners, customers, and communities.
We advocate for AI – and everything else! – moving quickly toward decarbonization, maximum privacy, and infrastructure that enhances, not destroys, wellbeing.
We focus on how AI supports, augments, and accelerates our overall mission to offer science-backed, head-and-heart management training to support the future we believe in.
We believe AI will never replace human beauty, value, and connection.
AI and Management
We’re doing our best to learn, grow, and blow our conventions and minds regarding AI and the future of management.
We ask provocative questions, like:
- As AI takes over knowledge building, access, and analysis, what new and necessary roles do human managers play? What talents and skills will successful managers embody and share?
- As AI completes in minutes the work once completed by teams through lengthy (and sometimes fraught) collaboration, consensus, decision-making, implementation, and refinement, what other meaningful and strategic work can managers do? What talents and skills will that require? How do we retain the power of real humans talking and wrestling with diverse ideas?
- More specifically, since AI exploits existing knowledge, how can managers, staff, and others re-orient toward creativity, ideation, synergy, and other forms of exploratory learning and knowledge?
- How can managers effectively and ethically manage AI agents and AI-generated processes, workflows, and data?
- How do managers facilitate rapid, ongoing AI learning and adaptation for themselves, their teams, and their organizations or collectives?
Our AI Practicalities
Yes, we use AI internally but never without human touch.
Specifically, we use:
- Generative AI to relieve writer’s block, troubleshoot a course outline or content, proofread, and take meeting notes. Humans do all writing, editing and polishing.
- Agentic AI to streamline internal processes so learners and other customers have a smooth experience. Real people are always involved, too.
We’re super curious about collaborative multi-agent AI, neurosymbolic, and embodied AI. We don’t know if or how we might use them. Yet, we’re continuously exploring AI advancement. (And we know at the AI rate, those particular capacities will be passe by tomorrow so we’re perpetually learning new ones!!)
For generative AI, we currently use Euria because it’s powered by renewable energy and doesn’t use our data to train itself. We’re looking for similar alternatives for other forms of AI.