Lattice CEO: AI flattens the difference between entry-level staff and C-suites
good morning. I’ve been thinking a lot about the future of AI and the work. It’s not difficult for humanity CEO Dario Amodai to say that AI can be done I’ll wipe out half Within five years, entry-level white-collar work and Openai CEO Sam Altman complained about it. Meta I’m about to poach his people $100 million Signature Bonus. We’ve already seen it There are shortages of entry-level jobs And leaders like leaders Amazon This is CEO Andy Jassy. Warning staff Their ranks could be reduced quickly due to AI. But what effect does AI have on C-Suite?
I recently co-founded and led the question by Sarah Franklin, CEO of Lattice, and Sarah Franklin, an AI-powered HR platform, and Altman’s brother Jack, now executive chairman, an HR platform for managing employee performance. Franklin spent 16 years Salesforce Before joining Lattice as CEO 18 months ago, he helped grow $3 billion in unicorns.
“We’ve been trained to have a pyramid with the workforce. You’ll go to college and work up the ladder and upwards to get work at the bottom rung,” she told me. “We’re all at a very different point right now. We’re all in the same place. Whether you’re an entry-level employee or an executive, there’s no difference in the level of knowledge we all have.”
AI flattened the hierarchy of knowledge, forced leaders to learn new tools and rethink everything from business models to job descriptions.
Franklin made it Waves are right awaBy introducing employee records for Y “Digital Workers” (AKA AI Agent), it sets back after a backlash that claimed to be rude to human employees.
Despite this, she is sure that leaders and AI agents will soon be working side by side. “AI really gives us a place where we don’t have our eyes and blindfolds it and helps us to see and understand better,” she says. So, while bosses may see salespeople reaching quotas or “mediocre” coworkers, AI can surface that despite some poor behavior, quotas are met and mediocre performers are actually good at supporting their peers.
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