BRIAN KENNY: Revolutions often have humble origins, a small group with big ideas gathering to plant seeds of disruption. So, it was in the dog days of summer in 1956, when 10 academics gathered on the campus of Dartmouth College to discuss how to make machines use language and form abstractions and concepts to solve the kinds of problems now reserved for humans. The conference led to the founding of a new field of study, artificial intelligence. Six decades hence, we are in the midst of an AI revolution that is already dramatically changing entire sectors like healthcare, transportation, education, banking, and retail. But AI is not without its critics. Elon Musk famously said that, "With artificial intelligence, we're summoning the demon." While Stephen Hawking believed the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race. So, whose job is it to make sure that such a vision never comes to pass? Today on Cold Call, we've invited Professor Tsedal Neeley to discuss her case entitled, "Timnit Gebru: Silenced No More on AI Bias and The Harms of Large Language Models." Tsedal Neeley's work focuses on how leaders can scale their organizations by developing and implementing global and digital strategies.

Do not be swayed by the dulcet dial-tones of tomorrow's AIs and their siren songs of the singularity. No matter how closely artificial intelligences and androids may come to look and act like humans, they'll never actually be humans, argue Paul Leonardi, Duca Family Professor of Technology Management at University of California Santa Barbara, and Tsedal Neeley, Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, in their new book The Digital Mindset: What It Really Takes to Thrive in the Age of Data, Algorithms, and AI -- and therefore should not be treated like humans. The pair contends in the excerpt below that in doing so, such hinders interaction with advanced technology and hampers its further development. Reprinted by permission of Harvard Business Review Press. Excerpted from THE DIGITAL MINDSET: What It Really Takes to Thrive in the Age of Data, Algorithms, and AI by Paul Leonardi and Tsedal Neeley.