What will the impact of AI look like?

The impact of AI will be significant and will be difficult to predict in detail, but clear themes are emerging on the kind of impact it will have on organizations.

Generative AI allows anyone with access to the internet to generate impressive content with very little training. People can use generative AI to produce photo-realistic pictures, drawings, articles, song lyrics, poems, computer code, and much more simply by requesting it in a simple chat interface.

AI will have a large, fast, and ongoing impact across every organization because of the ease of use and wide availability of this powerful technology. The disruptive impact of AI will likely resemble the PC and internet revolutions that transformed business processes, the consumer economy, and many aspects of society.

AI adoption will be fast

Unlike the PC revolution, AI does not require distributing new devices to have a broad and deep impact across society. This generation of...