The 'Shy AI' Phenomenon

If you’re not using AI in your day to day work then the person next you probably is.

Doesn’t feel like it?

That’s because of what I call the ‘Shy AI’ phenomenon.

This is where there’s far more regular users of AI than there are people willing to be seen using AI.

There’s good reasons for this -  rightly or wrongly being seen to use AI can open up a fear of judgement, job insecurity, ethical quandary and even existential angst.

But still, recent research shows that in leading companies 73% of staff are using AI on a weekly basis but…and yet when it comes to organisational adoption of AI things are moving much more slowly.

This is also understandable/sensible. The barriers are bigger and the stakes are higher. It’s one thing asking AI to draft social posts, it’s another thing letting it loose on your CRM.

In our work at Rootcause we try to stay sceptical about wild claims of just how fast and how far the AI revolution might go but we do believe that in some areas the revolution is underway.

One of the areas where we think things will happen is in information classification.

AI is good at making near-instant sense of large amounts of unstructured data and organisations have a lot of common knowledge needs where this ability can be useful.

There are lots of data sources where it could be possible to extract new insights.

*Emails
*Surveys
*Media content (including video and images)
*Social Media Data (Proprietary and Open Source)
*Publication Archives

And AI can be really helpful in devising and developing new database systems where AI tagging and other capabilities can add extra functionality and increase user-friendliness.

Rootcause Global exists to try and demystify influence in the age of AI.

Our latest experiment is focused on AI and data classification, so that we can show you how this might be useful in the future. If you want to be first to hear about the findings sign up to the Newsletter in the link below.