This week kept circling back to one idea. The tools are not the hard part. People are. Whether it is AI in the boardroom, kids growing up with chatbots, or the pressure we put on young athletes, the real question is always whether we are preparing people for what is in front of them.
1️⃣ 1,300 people, one Oxford study, and a 61-point warning for every leader.
Oxford researchers gave medical scenarios to professionals using AI tools. Accuracy hit 95%. Then 1,300 ordinary people ran the same scenarios with the same tools. Accuracy collapsed to 34%. Same technology. Same questions. The only thing that changed was the human using it.
That gap explains why most enterprise AI pilots are quietly failing right now. It is also what our 5T AI Impact Model is built to fix, by showing leaders where their AI value actually lives and how to reach it. Read the full article here.
2️⃣ The 5T AI Impact Masterclass: AI will change your business.
Knowing AI matters is the easy part. Saying something clear about it in a meeting, without guessing your way through it, is harder. That is normal. The demos oversell, and most AI advice is written for a Silicon Valley stage, not a real team with real clients and real deadlines.
Our team’s 5T AI Impact Masterclass is built for that gap. In 90 minutes, Graeme Codrington shows you and your team why most AI efforts stall and gives you a clear way to talk about it and a real next step to take.
No big promises, and no need to pretend to be a technologist. If you need a framework for your next AI pilot, book a discovery call here.
3️⃣ 1 in 5 high schoolers have had a romantic relationship with AI or know someone who has.
64% of US teens use AI chatbots. 1 in 5 high schoolers have had a romantic relationship with AI or know someone who has, and 49% of parents have never once talked to their child about it. That gap between what kids are doing and what parents see is the largest technology gap since the early internet.
Jude recently came across and shared this clear, honest guide for parents on what to teach the next generation about AI, the real risks and the real opportunities both.
AI is the tool. What matters is how we choose to use it, the same way we once worked out the printing press, the plough, and the internet.
4️⃣ From the Experience Economy to the Orchestrated Economy.
Dean shared a post yesterday on where agentic AI is heading. Drawing on research from AWS, he points to a shift from “generate and hope” toward systems that plan, decide, and act with human guidance.
His take is that we are moving out of the Experience Economy and into what he calls the Orchestrated Economy, where AI agents are arranged into systems that work toward our intent, with a human still directing them. As he puts it, how good you are at conducting may decide how well you do.
You can read the post and the AWS Executive Guide to Agentic AI here.
5️⃣ Jude Foulston in the Daily Maverick on the real cost of school sport.
Our colleague Jude Foulston was featured in the Daily Maverick this week, speaking as a parent and the person in our team who focuses on helping schools become future-fit, about the commercialisation of school sport.
School matches are now streamed nationally, ranked, and sponsored. Coaches, psychologists, and legal experts say children are being put under a public spotlight they are not ready for, with their mistakes replayed for a national audience.
Jude said it well. She wants her child to learn resilience and real human skills from sport, and right now, she does not think we are getting that right. Read the full article here.
Helping people get ready for what is next is the work we do every day at TomorrowToday.
It is also why we built the 5T AI Impact Masterclass. If the gap between where AI is heading and where your team actually sits is on your mind, that is the kind of thing we love working through with leaders.
Book a discovery call with Graeme Codrington to talk it through.