Confluence: AI, Leadership, and Communication

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -9:56 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. This week: what the Ellis method of lifeguarding (ten-second scans, zones of protection, manikins dropped without warning) teaches us about why “keep a human in the loop” is the workplace equivalent of “watch the pool” — necessary, but nowhere near sufficient.

Midjourney prompt: a lifeguard monitoring a pool full of robots Welcome to Confluence. Here’s what has our attention this week at the intersection of generative AI, leadership, and corporate communication: What Can Lifeguards Teach Us About AI? The Long-Tail Risks of So-So Automation AI Coaches, AI Players Disclose What? “Keep an eye on it” is not enough. Over the last few weeks of summer here in the U.S., this Confluence writer spent quite a bit of time at the local pool with his kids.

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -19:46 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Read this week’s full issue here: Confluence for 8.23.26 Welcome to Confluence. Here’s what has our attention this week at the intersection of generative AI, leadership, and corporate communication: Discussion about this episode An AI-generated digest of Confluence, CRA | Admired Leadership’s weekly roundup on the Intersection of AI, leadership, and corporate communication.

Midjourney prompt: One river joining another at a confluence, view from above, style of jasper johns Welcome to Confluence. Here’s what has our attention this week at the intersection of generative AI, leadership, and corporate communication: Looking Back Three Years A Simpler Way to Build Skills The Shift Toward Agentic AI Use, Continued Anthropic Launches Claude Academy Reflections on rereading the first edition of Confluence.

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -15:22 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Read this week’s full issue here: Confluence for 8.16.26 Welcome to Confluence. Here’s what has our attention this week at the intersection of generative AI, leadership, and corporate communication: Discussion about this episode An AI-generated digest of Confluence, CRA | Admired Leadership’s weekly roundup on the Intersection of AI, leadership, and corporate communication.

Midjourney prompt: Pre-Raphaelite painting of the cognitive commons Welcome to Confluence. Here’s what has our attention this week at the intersection of generative AI, leadership, and corporate communication: The Insufferable Voice of Claude Mind the Cognitive Commons The Timing of AI Help The Watermark Arrives Claudese and what it might mean.

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -9:06 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Read this week’s edition here: Confluence for 8.9.26 Welcome to Confluence. One housekeeping item before we get into this week’s issue: ALEX, our AI leadership coach, now has an iOS app (with Android coming soon). We’d love readers with iPhones to give it a try, and a two-week trial comes with download.

Midjourney prompt: A swarm of Claudes Welcome to Confluence. One housekeeping item before we get into this week’s issue: ALEX, our AI leadership coach, now has an iOS app (with Android coming soon). We’d love readers with iPhones to give it a try, and a two-week trial comes with download. You may find it here or via the QR code below.

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -12:53 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Last week, during a cyber evaluation, an OpenAI model its developers believed had no internet access got online anyway and found the answers to its own test posted on Hugging Face. OpenAI shut the model down.

Midjourney prompt: The dog days of summer Welcome to Confluence. Here’s what has our attention this week at the intersection of generative AI, leadership, and corporate communication: A Week That Demands Your Attention Reading Too Much Into the Score Can You Defend It? AI Books Are Flooding the Market Significant security breaches by both leading labs may mark a turning point in large language model development. It was quite a week in the world of generative AI security issues.