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“I used the new tools to make my team better instead of cutting them.”
You had the easy option, automate the people away, book the savings, call it progress. You built with them instead: the tools made each person more capable, not expendable. That is exactly the human use Wiener argued for. Hold that line; the pressure to treat people as cost will not let up.
Your Practice
- Name, concretely, how the tools made each person better at the human part of the work.
- Move the freed-up hours toward judgment, craft, and care, the things machines can't do.
- Ask the team where the tools help and where they get in the way. Build from their answer.
- Resist the next pitch that frames people purely as a cost to remove. Answer it on dignity.
The Architects
“We've seen every cybersecurity tool on the planet and they are all lacking in some way. We want to sit as a command and control layer on top of those tools, tie a thread through them and transform what needs transforming.”
Nik Seetharaman, Interview in TechCrunch, "When generative AI cyberthreats arrive, Wraithwatch will be ready and waiting," November 2, 2023