In this panel session Futurist Matthew Griffin explores the impact that emerging technologies such as AI, Crypto, and Web 3.0, are having on global business, culture, and society.
Matthew GriffinFounder, President and Futurist, 311 Institute
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About this panel
Firstly, thank you to Steffen Meister, the Chairman of Partners Group, a Swiss based global equity firm with over $140 Billion in assets, for inviting me to participate in a fireside chat along with host Christina Han, Head of Investment Research at Partners, and Dr. Pippa Malgrem to discuss the implications of emerging technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), crypto, and Web 3.0 on the global economy, geopolitics, and society at large.
Designed to be a wide ranging free flowing conversation, and coming on the back of yet another GPT release from OpenAI, we discussed a vast range of topics including the impact of Generative AI on work, the workforce, and the democratisation of skills and training, and the new AI arms race, then we switched gears to discuss the impact of AI in the boardroom, and on decision making.
We also discussed the emergence of fully autonomous organisations, so called headless brands like Bitcoin, new industry business models, Web 3 led Governance 2.0, and AI’s impact on everything from asset valuations and its ability to alter and manipulate the global financial markets, as well as its role in accelerating the pace of global disruption and product development.
Naturally, while the session was far too short to surface and discuss everything we still covered a huge amount of ground, even discussing the rise of semi autonomous AI, the future role of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), and the run on Silicon Valley Bank, and at one point we even touched on race for space and the development of space based energy platforms. All of which is just the beginning of what was a very interesting session.
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What this means for your leadership team
Skills and work are shifting.
Generative AI is changing the workforce and spreading access to skills and training. Tools now let people code, design, write and analyse without years of study. Leaders should rethink who does what, and how people are trained.
Decisions will involve machines.
The session looked at AI in the boardroom and in decision making. In finance, asset managers and traders are moving AI from back-office support into research, portfolios and trading. Boards need clear rules on where AI advice stops and human judgement starts.
Organisations may run with few people.
Autonomous organisations and headless brands such as Bitcoin point to new business models. AI agents are being tested as the workforce and management of firms with few or no human staff. Central Bank Digital Currencies add a further shift in how money moves.
Three questions for your next leadership meeting
Where in our business could AI already inform board decisions?
Which skills will our people gain access to through AI tools?
How would our firm cope with a rival run by few humans?
The trends and technologies behind this session
From the 311 Starburst, the 311 Strategic Intelligence Unit’s map of the technologies and trends shaping the next 50 years.
It shows that AI, crypto and Web 3.0 are linked, and that they touch work, governance, finance and geopolitics together. Organisations should plan across these areas, not treat each as a separate project.
How does Generative AI relate to this session?
It sits behind the discussion of work, the workforce and the spread of skills and training. 311 rates it Act now, and it can already make text, pictures, sound, video and code from a prompt.
How do autonomous organisations relate to this session?
The panel discussed fully autonomous organisations and headless brands like Bitcoin. 311 rates this trend Explore, as AI agents are being tested as the workforce and management of companies with few or no human staff.
How can 311 brief our leadership team on this?
Through a private executive briefing or leadership workshop, tailored to your sector and delivered in person first.
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Analysis by the 311 Strategic Intelligence Unit, from Matthew Griffin’s session and 311 data.
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