This is a fascinating list Rob - thanks for sharing. I guess my instinct comes down on AI as a normal technology but I am going to some deeper reading. A few names on this list I am not familiar with. Not sure how reviving management cybernetics fits here. I think this is an interesting model but not especially linked to how AI plays out.
Hey Kenny, Glad you find it interesting. AI as a normal technology and AI as a cultural technology are both fairly intuitive, but also passive, frames of understanding. You are right to see cybernetics as a tougher fit. It is hard to talk about Beer and others in this vein without getting theoretical, but you can start with the insight that the theory itself is about taking action to understand something.
Passive frames don’t get you very far when it comes to understanding something new. You have to play with a new toy or new technology to understand it. Cybernetics, at least the version I find interesting, is a way to think about how organizations can play with large AI models to accomplish practical things, hopefully better things that benefit people and society.
This is a fascinating list Rob - thanks for sharing. I guess my instinct comes down on AI as a normal technology but I am going to some deeper reading. A few names on this list I am not familiar with. Not sure how reviving management cybernetics fits here. I think this is an interesting model but not especially linked to how AI plays out.
Hey Kenny, Glad you find it interesting. AI as a normal technology and AI as a cultural technology are both fairly intuitive, but also passive, frames of understanding. You are right to see cybernetics as a tougher fit. It is hard to talk about Beer and others in this vein without getting theoretical, but you can start with the insight that the theory itself is about taking action to understand something.
Passive frames don’t get you very far when it comes to understanding something new. You have to play with a new toy or new technology to understand it. Cybernetics, at least the version I find interesting, is a way to think about how organizations can play with large AI models to accomplish practical things, hopefully better things that benefit people and society.
Thanks for putting this together!