Accenture uses AI as a productivity tool rather than a replacement, creating job aids that help employees integrate generative AI into daily work. A proof-of-concept showed workers were eager to adopt it, delighted rather than threatened. Leadership must build a culture where AI augments human work responsibly.
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So I think it's a matter of really reframing and redefining, uh, one of the roles I have, uh, at Accenture, for example, is to create job aids, right? So every enterprise needs to really think about how do I wanna frame the use of generative AI to augment the ingenuity of the individual? Both Microsoft and even Accenture share this as a core mission in the company, augmenting human possibility and Rather than saying, I'm going to leverage this technology in order to completely replace jobs, what we wanna be thinking instead is how do I augment them to do more? It's actually quite capitalist-focused, right? Like, how do I not get rid of people, but actually use those people to do more things, to accelerate, create a bigger funnel, handle more customers? Um, there is no lack, uh, of capability, no lack of growth that a company would want to see. So this actually accelerates growth by creating more efficiencies in your human talent pool. And especially, I think it's, it's interesting when I end up delivering a generative AI solution, the, the humans that are using it are quite delighted, very happy. As a matter of fact, I, I delivered a POC not for production and they're like, I mean, can we just start using it now? Like they wanted to use it right away. So I think there is another maybe myth there that we think the humans that are gonna see this are gonna be threatened by it. But I actually find those The people that I give this technology to are delighted to have it, are excited to use it, are not sad at all to have certain parts of their job that they don't have to do anymore. Um, and so, but I do think the burden's on the, the leadership of an organization to set that culture, number one, and to create these job aids that help them use this technology in the right way.
