Understanding the fears of AI adoption: With Christen Bell

About this episode

Tammy discusses AI adoption fears with Christen Bell, focusing on trust and leadership in the workplace.

This week on Catalyst, Tammy is joined by AI Empowerment Solutions Leader at NTT DATA Christen Bell. Christen’s work focuses on how intelligent systems affect humans in the workplace and, more recently, human’s fears of AI. Christen shares her fascinating findings with Tammy on how AI adoption differs between industries and regions and what makes people more or less trusting of AI. Christen and Tammy also talk about how leaders can quell the perceived threat of AI in their workplaces - no surprise, it's by being human first!  Please note that the views expressed may not necessarily be those of NTT DATA Links:  Christen Bell  Learn more about Launch by NTT DATA See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

People in this episode

Host: Tammy

Guest: Christen Bell

Topics covered

• AI adoption
• workplace technology
• human fears of AI
• trust in AI
• leadership in technology

Keywords

• AI
• adoption
• trust
• workplace
• leadership
• technology
• fears

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Organizations: NTT DATA

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