Harvard Professor Reveals How to Stay Valuable as AI Gets Better 💡

Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,

In today’s issue, we look at an interview with Harvard Business School professor Karim Lakhani, where he explains the three ways people work with AI, why one group is falling behind, and what it takes to stay valuable as AI gets better.

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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI

• Chart of the week: ChatGPT Joins the World’s Most Visited Websites

• Elon Musk and Tech Leaders Back Petition to Reinstate Former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang

• AI Findings/Resources

• AI tools to check out

• Video of the week

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Chart of the week

ChatGPT Joins the World’s Most Visited Websites

• Google dominates the ranking with 108.9 billion monthly visits, followed by YouTube at 60 billion. Together, the two platforms attract nearly twice as many visits as the other 38 websites combined.

• ChatGPT ranks fourth with 8.23 billion monthly visits, placing it ahead of established social media platforms such as Instagram, Reddit, and X.

• AI assistants are becoming major internet destinations, although ChatGPT’s closest competitor, Claude, ranks 21st with 1.6 billion monthly visits.

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AI News

NVIDIA

Elon Musk and Tech Leaders Back Petition to Reinstate Former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang

A petition calling on Nvidia’s board to reinstate former CEO Jensen Huang has gathered more than 115,000 signatures, including support from prominent technology executives, employees, and shareholders.

Details:

• The petition website reported more than 115,000 signatures as of Saturday afternoon, including 5,965 current Nvidia employees, 1,108 former employees, and 63,063 shareholders.

• Notable supporters include Elon Musk, Tesla and SpaceX CEO; Amjad Masad, CEO of Replit; Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games; and Garry Tan, CEO of Y Combinator.

• The signers argue that Huang was removed without meaningful due process and are asking Nvidia’s board to reinstate him while an independent investigation continues.

• The petition also calls for a fair investigation and greater transparency from the board, stating that Huang deserves due process rather than public judgment before the facts are established.

• The company's shares also fell sharply during the week following Huang's departure.

The petition adds pressure on Nvidia's board as the company faces questions about its leadership transition and the allegations surrounding its former CEO. The company's shares also fell sharply during the week following Huang's departure.

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AI Findings/Resources

⚡ AI is driving a data-center power boom. These are some of the biggest US projects being built

🩻 This man built a webcam X-ray mirror with Claude Fable 5.2

👀 The most complete list of LLM writing tics

🔍 Canva just launched its own AI image generator, so I tested it vs ChatGPT

🎼 What happens if you ask Fable 5.2 to invent a new musical form?

AI Tools to check out

✨ Decksy: Create polished presentations faster with AI.

🎓 Vunote: Your AI assistant for learning from video.

🖱️ Squint: Drag a box on your screen and ask AI about it.

💼 HiringNow: AI job agent that finds & applies for jobs before anyone else.

Video of the week

Harvard Professor Warns: AI Is Brilliant, Persuasive, and Sometimes Wrong

Karim R. Lakhani, a professor at Harvard Business School, discusses how individuals and organizations can effectively integrate AI into their work. He emphasizes that while AI can significantly boost productivity, it does not replace the need for human expertise, judgment, and taste.

• Three Roles of AI Users: Lakhani categorizes AI users into three groups based on a study with BCG consultants: cyborgs (60%), who solve problems side by side with AI; centaurs (14%), who delegate specific tasks while maintaining control; and self-automators (27%), who delegate entirely and stop thinking. He notes that self-automators often struggle because they fail to engage critically with the output.

• The Jagged Frontier: AI is brilliant at some tasks and weak at others that look equally hard, and it sounds persuasive either way. The only way to find where it breaks is to keep using the newest models on frontier tasks and stay critical.

• The Importance of "Taste": Because AI models tend to provide average, statistical responses, Lakhani argues that human "taste" (the ability to curate and judge quality) is essential for differentiation.

• Adversarial Prompting: To avoid blindly accepting AI outputs, Lakhani recommends an adversarial approach. He advises never taking the first answer and training the model to provide counterarguments, red flags, and alternative perspectives.

• Role of Leadership: He stresses that CEOs and executives must be hands-on with AI tools to understand their capabilities and limitations. He believes that failing to use these tools themselves cushions leaders from the reality of how work is changing.

• Future Outlook: Lakhani describes the current shift as a "difference of kind" rather than just a new technological wave. He suggests that for businesses to survive and thrive by 2030, they must rethink their value creation rather than just wrapping legacy processes around AI.

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