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How should executives decide where to apply AI?

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Drawn from Lutz Finger's Forbes column, LinkedIn writing, and Cornell teaching. Sources are cited inline so you can read the originals.

Start with the problem, not the tool, and the right use of AI emerges on its own.

You don’t start with the tool, you start with the problem, and then it naturally emerges which tools are best to use. If you want a house, you start with wanting the house, then find the materials and skilled people. You don’t start with a screwdriver and ask what you could build with it. AI is like suddenly having a bazooka in your toolbox: it’s incredibly powerful, but you still need to aim it and know exactly what to do with it.

Source: Tomorrow’s Medicine, with Cyriac Roeding (eCornell Keynote)


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