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Who is more likely to embrace the use of AI in their work?

At the SingleStore AI conference I spoke to a guy who said he runs 40+ hospitals but AI isn’t his thing. More or less, he said that’s a problem for his lower level staff and he was just hearing to support one speaker.

As we spoke he warmed up about his view of evidence based medicine and future AI impacts for my daughter’s generation and we had a good discussion about localized optimization (saving patient lives) vs systemic (public health lens) and the butterfly effects of environmental exposure, nutrition, etc.

This administrator/executive wasn’t focused on AI and estimated most of the impact is far off in the future.

Getting off the train on my way home I ran into one of the parents from my daughter’s daycare who is a local Pastor.

When I told him about the confidence and he said “yeah, we use that all the time. We just hired a new admin and one of the job requirements was to use generative AI”.

I have to admit I was stunned! I don’t think of religion in terms of risk management, predictions and optimization. I had never considered the implications of AI in that arena at all.

They are recording the sermons, using the transcripts as the basis to create weekly devotional emails and drive engagement in the congregation.

I’m wrestling with AI terminology, trying to understand current use cases, ethical considerations, limitations and future potential applications.

I know that AI is much more pervasive now than we even realize.

I’m continually surprised by uneven adoption and who the tech evangelists truly are.

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