On-Demand Podcast · CHAI Corner Chat

Don’t get Automated!

Kate Villari (VP, Strategy & Transformation at GSK) joins Cindy Hoots to discuss the future of the workforce in the age of AI. They tackle a critical question: Are you using AI to sharpen your thinking, or to skip it entirely?

  • The '100x Worker' Era is Here
  • "AI Work Slop" Is Ruining Organizations!
  • Avoid Leadership Bottlenecks: Lead by Example

Featuring

Kate Villari

Kate Villari

VP, Strategy & Transformation

GSK · Speaker

Cindy Hoots

Cindy Hoots

Former CIO / CDO

AstraZeneca · Host

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Key Takeaways

What you'll walk away with

Essential insights on reshaping workforce capability and leadership strategies in the age of AI.

01

The '100x Worker' Era is Here.

The uncomfortable truth? Most professionals are harboring a deep, hidden fear: their years of hard-earned experience is depreciating in an AI-infused reality.

02

"AI Work Slop" Is Ruining Organizations!

Using AI to skip your thinking can create what Kate says AI Work Slop - output that looks finished but is missing the critical thinking and experience that should have gone into it.

03

Avoid Leadership Bottlenecks: Lead by Example

Kate explains how you cannot delegate AI transformation from an ivory tower. Telling your team to "go figure it out" while ignoring the technology yourself creates massive operational brittleness and fear.

04

Why Sunk Cost Fallacy Kills Innovation?

Are you holding onto outdated solutions just because you spent weeks building them? That’s corporate death.

05

Employee Adoption: is it a will or skill problem?

Change fatigue is real, but masking a lack of adaptability behind fake technical limitations is killing Digital Transformations. If leaders don't dig beneath surface-level excuses to address the human fear of irrelevance, their expensive tech investments will fail.