The AI ​​backlash couldn’t have come at a better time

Meanwhile, AI is quietly becoming part of the fabric of our lives – not by changing our lives or taking our jobs or becoming sentient, but by making our lives and our jobs easier. For example, when I Googled “When will AI become sentient?” (and “When did Skynet become self-aware,” for comparison purposes), I don’t need to comb through the results all at once but instead read the AI-generated summary of the most relevant content above, with sources. (Spoiler alert: Opinions are mixed.)

There are hundreds of other examples of AI applications that are, well, a little boring but very useful. What’s less boring today is scaling and integrating AI across organizations. And that’s where AI backlash can come in handy.

Making AI useful is boring

Developers, engineers, operations personnel, enterprise architects, IT managers, and others need AI to be as boring to them as it is to consumers. They need it not to be a “thing,” but something that is managed and integrated seamlessly into – and supported by – the infrastructure stack and tools they use to do their jobs. They don’t want to endlessly hear about AI; They just want AI to work seamlessly for them so it works for customers.