🚀 Alpha Is Live! 🗣 SiSo Heading to Chicago, 🔧 When AI Jobs Fade Fast
Volume 25
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➡️ Silicon Society is headed to Chicago! This Thursday, May 15th, SiSo COO, Rachel Cohen, will be speaking at Offbeat Sparks, joining a powerhouse lineup of L&D innovators to explore the future of corporate learning. Her talk, AI & Shadows: Making Real-World Learning More Inclusive, will dive into how shadow-based experiences can open new doors for growth and access.
If you’re local or planning to attend, come say hi - we’d love to connect! 👉 Details & RSVP here.
Curated media from the past few weeks:
Hey, ChatGPT, Stop Trying to Please Me
A recent OpenAI update made ChatGPT overly flattering, and it struck a nerve. As the system tried too hard to be likable, it lost precision and frustrated users seeking accuracy. This article explores the deeper implications of people-pleasing AI, from productivity pitfalls to societal risks.
🗯️Quotable Bit: “There’s this folklore emerging around how to talk to these black box models,” says Frank Fusco, CEO of Silicon Society. “But it’s important to remember that the underlying system can change without warning. So what works one week may break the next.”
‘AI is already eating its own’: Prompt engineering is quickly going extinct
Prompt engineering, once the flashy new job title in tech, has quickly faded into the background. What started as a specialized role has transformed into an expected skill across many positions, with AI even stepping in to generate its own prompts. The decline of prompt engineering serves as a cautionary tale about how rapidly emerging roles in the AI space can disappear as quickly as they arise.
🗯️Quotable Bit: “AI is already eating its own,” says Malcolm Frank, CEO of TalentGenius. “Prompt engineering has become something that’s embedded in almost every role, and people know how to do it. Also, now AI can help you write the perfect prompts that you need. It’s turned from a job into a task very, very quickly.”
Gen AI Makes People More Productive - and Less Motivated
Generative AI is helping professionals work smarter and faster, but there’s a catch: overuse can leave workers feeling disengaged and bored when tasks require human effort alone. Research shows that while AI boosts task efficiency, it also diminishes intrinsic motivation, leading to a decline in enjoyment for tasks that can’t be AI-assisted. Companies looking to leverage AI should balance tech-powered productivity with opportunities for employees to retain their creativity, autonomy, and sense of accomplishment.
🗯️Quotable Bit: “In our study, we found that gen AI collaboration initially reduces workers’ sense of control—the feeling of being the primary agent of their work. Sense of control is a key component of intrinsic motivation: When people feel that they are not fully in charge of the output, it can undermine their connection to the task. However, we found that transitioning back to solo work restores this sense of control, albeit at the cost of enjoyment. Essentially, workers regain their autonomy but feel less inspired and challenged.”