AI Innovation: Fear vs. Future at Your Fingertips

28 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief conversation, Speaker A emphasizes that when employees see AI innovation as readily accessible, their fear diminishes, but only if leaders articulate a clear vision of a collaborative human‑AI workplace. Chrissy Myers expands on this, noting that at her organizations (Clarity and AUI) they are deliberately fostering psychological safety so staff don’t fear AI replacing them or overwhelming them with extra work. The dialogue underscores the need for proactive communication and a safe culture to turn AI tools from a source of anxiety into an empowering resource.

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when people realize how much innovation is just at their fingertips, the fear is going away. But if you keep that abstract, if you are leading your people and not communicating that you have a vision for a co-working environment between people and their AI, they're going to wonder, is this coming from my seat or is it going to be sitting next to me?
Oh, and you make a really good point because we've had some of these conversations too at Clarity and at AUI. And as we're, we're working on innovating, we're also making sure that we build a significant amount of psychological safety within our organization, because what we don't want is, you know, fear around the tools. So I'm not going to use it because this is going to replace me, or fear around— and the opposite of that is now you're going to make me use all of these AI tools, and how much more work am I going to do?