Do Managers Actually Understand AI? (I’m Not So Sure.) | AI Reality Check

0:00Do you ever get that sense when you're hearing business executives talk about AI that they seem to be living in a completely different world than the rest of us?

0:11I mean, I get that feeling a lot.

0:12I want to give you a recent example.

0:14Last week, I came across an article from the New York Times business sector that interviewed multiple executives from the German software company SAP, as well as several European business and economics analysts.

0:29Now, what struck me was how confident everyone was that AI had already started massively disrupting the economy and would continue to do so at an accelerating rate in the near future.

0:41Here, let me load the article on the screen here.

0:44Look, the title was, Can You Embrace AI Without Layoffs?

0:48This company says it's trying.

0:49And look at the subhead here.

0:51The German software giant SAP says it's betting that employees can reinvent jobs instead of eliminating them.

0:58Experts are divided on whether it will work.