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Demo Questions

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Demo Questions

Sample queries and answers for live workshop demonstration.

Should I be worried AI is going to replace people on my team, or is that overblown?

Neither fully. The honest answer is more specific than either headline.

AI eliminates tasks more readily than it eliminates roles. Most jobs are a bundle of tasks — some of which AI handles well, some of which it handles badly, and some of which require human judgment that AI cannot reliably replicate. The net effect on any given role depends on which tasks dominate it.

Stanford’s WORKBank research across 47 occupations found that the most common pattern is human-AI collaboration — not replacement. Roughly 47.5% of work falls into augmentation, where AI handles volume and humans handle judgment. Only 16.4% of tasks show clear displacement risk.

Three effects are happening simultaneously:

  • Displacement — some tasks go away
  • Augmentation — humans do more with AI support
  • Creation — new tasks appear that didn’t exist before (prompt design, output review, AI governance)

The deeper risk isn’t replacement — it’s skill erosion. If AI takes over the tasks that used to develop human judgment, your team gets faster in the short term and less capable in the long term. That’s the thing worth watching.

Sources: Human Agency Scale · Tasks vs Jobs · AI Strengths and Human Strengths · Future Skills and Metaskills

What were the 6 strategies Yaron talked about in class?

The Six Strategy AI Leadership Framework organizes AI decisions into two layers:

Operational layer — how you use AI in daily work:

  • Delegate — hand off repetitive, well-defined tasks to AI. Free human capacity for judgment work. Risk: creating an “AI elevator operator” — someone who manages prompts without redesigning the underlying workflow.
  • Co-Create — use AI as a collaborator in knowledge work: drafting, analysis, synthesis, ideation. Requires a skeptic in the room. AI amplifies groupthink if no one pushes back on the output.
  • Innovate — use AI to unlock genuinely new business models or revenue lines, not just efficiency. Amazon’s AWS ($128.7B) started as internal infrastructure. The question is: what internal capability could become a product?

Strategic layer — how you govern the transition:

  • Protect — defend human capability and wellbeing. 77% of knowledge workers report AI is adding to their workload, not reducing it. Guard focused work and prevent skill erosion.
  • Govern — set the rules for how AI is used, by whom, with what oversight. Only 1 in 5 companies has a meaningful AI governance structure (Deloitte, 2024).
  • Develop — build real capability in people, not just tool access. 39% of core workforce skills are expected to be outdated by 2030 (WEF).

The two layers run in parallel — operational moves without strategic guardrails create liability; strategic guardrails without operational momentum create bureaucracy.

Sources: Six Strategy AI Leadership Framework · Delegate · Co-Create · Innovate · Protect · Govern · Develop

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