About this episode

The episode discusses how AI is reshaping the workplace and the complexities involved in its integration.

What happens when AI stops being a productivity tool and starts reshaping the structure of work itself? In this episode of AI-Curious, we talk with Kelly Monahan, a future of work and AI advisor, about what AI may actually do to the workplace over the next few years, and why the reality is likely to be messier than both the hype and the fear suggest. We dig into the tension between using AI for augmentation versus automation, why so many companies are still struggling to prove ROI, and how AI...

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Host: Jeff Wilser

Guest: Kelly Monahan

Topics covered

• AI
• future of work
• productivity
• automation
• augmentation
• ROI

Keywords

• AI
• workplace
• productivity tools
• automation
• augmentation
• future of work
• ROI

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Organizations: AI-Curious

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