I touch on these last points to take us back to an earlier one
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In my book The Entrepreneurs Essentials, a theme interwoven throughout is the importance of the new kind of capitalism, Conscious Capitalism enabled most directly by the Public Benefit Corporation. data.world has been a B Corporation since our public launch, and as such we commit ourselves not just to shareholder returns (although that is of course key) but also to our obligation to employees, the community, the environment, and the future.
Among the features of this movement is to count beyond the GDP metric I decried at the outset, which ignores the costs of pollution, the contribution to the labor force of family members, and many other metrics that our new tools of AI can record and data mastery can deliver. “We need numbers that matter for the questions we have,” wrote author, strategist, and data.world investor Zachary Karabell, just one of many economists decrying this obsolete way of tallying progress. In a narrower but related sense, I also touched upon this in Chapter 19 of my book, making the case that down to the firm level we need to take inspiration from the late Intel leader Andy Grove, who developed the concept of “Objectives/Key Results” (OKRs). That metric replaced “Management by Objectives” (MOBs), a measurement as outdated for companies as GDP is becoming for nations.
that a new kind of business ethos and operational mentality will be needed to meet the challenges of AI. The Conscious Capitalism movement is only a start, a set of green shoots that give hong kong whatsapp number data us a look at the future. What will it look like? If the nation-state, with all of its virtues and frailties was born of Renaissance 1.0, we need to set our imaginations to the kind of planetary governance, collaboration, and global abundance that entrepreneurs will and must create in Renaissance 2.0. To be clear, I’m neither anti-government nor against sensible regulation, but government moves linearly as AI moves exponentially.
“We have the potential and the opportunity to do it better,” said Suleyman, sharing his own vision for a better world through AI. “If AI delivers on even a fraction of its potential, the next decade is going to be the most productive in human history.”
It won’t be easy or without pitfalls, as Hoffman noted at the end of his conversation with his digital twin: “We have to reconceptulize ourselves as human beings,” he said.
And why not? We did precisely that a half a millenia ago. This time, we’ll reimagine and remake ourselves, our world, and institutions faster, more justly, and more sustainably. We can do this. This is the promise of artificial intelligence, which is best described as “all of us”, as Suleyman said so eloquently at the end of his TED talk.
Among the features of this movement is to count beyond the GDP metric I decried at the outset, which ignores the costs of pollution, the contribution to the labor force of family members, and many other metrics that our new tools of AI can record and data mastery can deliver. “We need numbers that matter for the questions we have,” wrote author, strategist, and data.world investor Zachary Karabell, just one of many economists decrying this obsolete way of tallying progress. In a narrower but related sense, I also touched upon this in Chapter 19 of my book, making the case that down to the firm level we need to take inspiration from the late Intel leader Andy Grove, who developed the concept of “Objectives/Key Results” (OKRs). That metric replaced “Management by Objectives” (MOBs), a measurement as outdated for companies as GDP is becoming for nations.
that a new kind of business ethos and operational mentality will be needed to meet the challenges of AI. The Conscious Capitalism movement is only a start, a set of green shoots that give hong kong whatsapp number data us a look at the future. What will it look like? If the nation-state, with all of its virtues and frailties was born of Renaissance 1.0, we need to set our imaginations to the kind of planetary governance, collaboration, and global abundance that entrepreneurs will and must create in Renaissance 2.0. To be clear, I’m neither anti-government nor against sensible regulation, but government moves linearly as AI moves exponentially.
“We have the potential and the opportunity to do it better,” said Suleyman, sharing his own vision for a better world through AI. “If AI delivers on even a fraction of its potential, the next decade is going to be the most productive in human history.”
It won’t be easy or without pitfalls, as Hoffman noted at the end of his conversation with his digital twin: “We have to reconceptulize ourselves as human beings,” he said.
And why not? We did precisely that a half a millenia ago. This time, we’ll reimagine and remake ourselves, our world, and institutions faster, more justly, and more sustainably. We can do this. This is the promise of artificial intelligence, which is best described as “all of us”, as Suleyman said so eloquently at the end of his TED talk.