AI Literacy Will Be the Norm...Are You Prepared?

Andy Jordan is President of Roffensian Consulting S.A., a Roatan, Honduras-based management consulting firm with a comprehensive project management practice. Andy always appreciates feedback and discussion on the issues raised in his articles and can be reached at [email protected]. Andy's new book Risk Management for Project Driven Organizations is now available.

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I recently had a few interactions that made me realize just how integral artificial intelligence is becoming to project management.

In one, I was taking part in a panel discussion. Another panelist said that one of the first questions they ask a PM during an interview is how they use AI. If the response is that their organization doesn’t allow it, the interviewer would ask about the person’s personal use of AI. The implication was clear: If they didn’t use AI, they wouldn’t get the job.

The second interaction was a project manager who had recently started a new position and was struggling with adopting AI. They had moved from a company that hadn’t yet embraced the technology to one that was already using it extensively. (Clearly, they hadn’t been interviewed by the first person that I referenced.)

The training this PM was receiving was focused on the specific use cases that the company used their internal AI tool for; it assumed that the employee already understood the basics of how to interact with AI.

Literacy is starting to be assumed
You could argue that the organization in that second example should have been prepared to provide new employes with a basic overview of how to use AI. For now, I would agree with you. But it’s not going to stay that way. We are beginning to get to the point where AI literacy is going to be …

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