AMBA's Ambition magazine: Issue 62, April 2023

EDITOR’S LETTER 

EDITORIAL Head of editorial Colette Doyle c.doyle@amba-bga.com Content editor Tim Banerjee Dhoul t.dhoul@amba-bga.com Art editor Yvette Beattie Sub-editor Heather Ford Insight, content and PR manager Ellen Buchan e.buchan@amba-bga.com CORPORATE Head of commercial relations Max Braithwaite m.braithwaite@amba-bga.com

Coming of AGE

As the new generation of AI gains traction in everyday life, how best can we harness its power?

recent article penned by tech guru Bill Gates hailed ChatGPT, the latest iteration of artificial intelligence, as nothing short of “revolutionary”. Gates believes that this development is as fundamental as the creation of the internet or the mobile phone, noting that it will change the way people work, learn, travel, access healthcare and communicate with each other. The key word here for our industry, of course, is ‘learn’. In our last issue, Neoma marketing professor Alain Goudey argued that ChatGPT could become a critical resource in enhancing remote learning, while pointing out that the technology “is a means, not an end”. Goudey advocates its use in collaborative group projects, as this could be a viable method for business school lecturers to use when guiding students’ use of AI tools. In this way, faculty sta“ can help learners understand the ethical debate surrounding the technology and how it can most e“ectively be used to support – but crucially, not replace – their own thinking. In this issue, our cover story from IEDC-Bled School of Management in Slovenia looks at the countless consequences of the growing involvement of AI in our daily life, including the identification and analysis of those new business challenges we face in the modern world. In fact, we are on the cusp of granting this new-generation AI the power to actively contribute to some of our key decisions across sectors as diverse and wide-ranging as medicine, transportation, sciences, finance and defence. The authors acknowledge that AI is more e–cient than the human approach in many respects and that in fact human knowledge and skills are becoming obsolete across a number of roles, including in the field of leadership. Yet we desperately need this technology to assist us in repairing the havoc humanity has wreaked on our planet. So how best to proceed? The answer may lie in a partnership labelled ‘hybrid intelligence’, characterised by an integration of input from both parties, resulting in a new alliance between human and non-organic minds. This new era o“ers many opportunities, but we also need to proceed with caution and take heed of the words of French Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire: “With great power, comes great responsibility”.

Head of marketing and communications Leonora Clement

Senior marketing executive Edward Holmes

Head of IT and data management Jack Villanueva

Head of events Carolyn Armsby

HR and employer relations manager Aarti Bhasin Finance and commercial Director Catherine Walker

Colette Doyle , Editor, Ambition

THIS MONTH’S CONTRIBUTORS

Chief executive ocer Andrew Main Wilson

Executive assistant to the CEO Sharon Sidaway s.sidaway@amba-bga.com ACCREDITATION ENQUIRIES accreditation@amba-bga.com

ORIOL AMAT

BENOIT ARNAUD

PIERRE CASSE

ED HADDON

ELNURA IRMATOVA

JOSÉ MANUEL MARTÍNEZ‰SIERRA

BEN NOTHNAGEL

ANSGAR RICHTER

PAWAN KUMAR SINGH

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