Whether you’re excited or anxious about AI, there’s a more useful way to look at it: as your intelligent assistant. You’re still in the driving seat and choosing the destination – and AI helps you get there faster, safer, and more efficiently. With this mindset, you use AI to unlock better outcomes without losing control.

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How do you think about AI in your professional role? Some see it as a great opportunity, a great possibility, and an accelerator. Others see it as a threat, a risk, and a burden that adds more work to what they are already doing.

Let me give you an interesting perspective from a conversation about AI I had with my dad two years ago.

My dad – who was eighty-six at the time – had really invested a lot of time learning about AI. Not just because he knew I knew about it, but because he was genuinely interested.

Once, when I was driving him home, and we were stopped at traffic lights, he said to me, “You know, I think AI would be really good at managing traffic lights.”

He’s right, of course, and when I asked him why, he said it’s because AI can see all the traffic flow in the city, and can make decisions to adjust the timing of lights at each intersection to make traffic flow more smoothly everywhere.

He’s exactly right. AI is really good for traffic management – for three reasons.

First, for that reason (having a macro view to make micro decisions).

Second, because it can process large amounts of data fast to make quick decisions.

And third, because it can learn – so it reviews what it did today, and fine-tunes it to make better decisions tomorrow.

As I was thinking about this conversation later, I also realised it’s a good analogy for the way we use AI in general.

Treat AI as your intelligent assistant.

In the traffic lights analogy: You choose your destination, you get into the driving seat, and you control the car. Along the way, AI helps you get there faster, safer, and more efficiently.

This perspective on AI – as an assistant, not a replacement – gives you a powerful tool to set better goals, make more insightful decisions, and reach better outcomes.

Even in the future, when AI is driving all our autonomous cars, it’s still up to us to choose our destination.

For more about rethinking AI, join my online presentation soon – especially if you’re a leader. I’ll show you what’s changed in AI in the last year, and what that means for yourself, your team, and your organisation.

I’ll see you in the future.

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