He argued that the first step should

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What should AI focus on?
While we have a labor shortage that needs to be addressed (and AI jobs like Devin's "AI Software Engineer" are being created to address it ), and while productivity is important, productivity without focus on the best direction is problematic. Let me explain what I mean.

When I was at IBM and moving from internal audit to competitive intelligence, I attended a class that has stuck with me for years. The instructor used an X/Y chart to emphasize that when it comes to executing strategy, most companies focus almost immediately on achieving the stated goal as quickly as possible.

not be speed. The first step should be confidence that you are moving in the right direction. Otherwise, you will move faster and faster away from where you are supposed to go because you have not first established the goal.

Over the years, I saw this happen at every company I worked for. Ironically, it was often my job to provide direction, but more often than not, decisions were made either before my work was bulgaria mobile database or the decision maker viewed me and my team as a threat. If we were right and they were wrong, it would reflect on the decision maker’s reputation. Initially, I thought this was due to confirmation bias , which is our tendency to accept information that confirms our previous position and reject anything that doesn’t. Later, I learned about argumentation theory , which posits that since the days of cavemen, we have been hardwired to fight for what is right, whether we are right or not, because those who are perceived to be right get the best friends and the highest positions in the tribe.

I think part of the reason we don't focus on AI to make better decisions is because of the argumentation theory that makes managers think, if AI can make better decisions, then aren't they redundant? So why take that risk?

But bad decisions, as I have personally seen time and again, kill companies. Sam Altman stealing Scarlett Johansson's voice, OpenAI firing Altman, and the lack of focus on AI quality in favor of speed are all potentially disastrous decisions, but OpenAI seems uninterested in using AI to solve the problem of bad decisions (especially strategic ones), even though we suffer from them ourselves.

Summing up
We don't think about the hierarchy of where AI should be focused first. That hierarchy should start with decision support, move on to improving worker efficiency before replacing them with Devin-like offerings, and then move on to speed to avoid going in the wrong direction at machine speeds.