Happy Wednesday, Lattice Community!
We’ll dissect big stories in AI this week, provide insights to keep you informed in your industry, and share updates on the work we’re doing at Lattice Partners. We’re an AI implementation company that helps businesses with AI strategy and custom solutions.
This week’s TL;DR:
• Washington signed an AI pact and Trump renamed AI
• AI’s impact on the young workforce…let’s just say they’re no longer fetching your morning coffee
• Watch your back. AI’s deepfakes are getting snakey!
Washington’s attempt to get a grip on AI, all in a week.
Trump announced a Super Intelligence Force that pushes for US AI dominance, while still aiming to protect American lives and interests. Anthropic, Nvidia, OpenAI, Google, Meta, SpaceX, Microsoft, AMD and Palo Alto Networks signed a voluntary pact to manage the guardrails of AI technology as it develops.
Takeaways
1. An AI constitution?!
Basically everyone you’ve heard of in tech signed the pact. While President Trump calls this safety accord “morally binding,” it’s technically NOT legally enforceable. Critics, including AI safety experts and lawmakers, want federal AI regulation, but Trump believes AI lab CEOs can manage their technologies themselves for now, and the accord says actual laws could follow in the future.
2. Trump says no to “AI,” but yes to “SI”
Can he even do that? Sort of. Trump signed an executive order to start using the term “Super Intelligence” or “SI” instead of “Artificial Intelligence” or “AI.” Trump’s new order applies to the federal government’s own agencies, but current laws and regulations will stay as is.
3. AI labs haven’t gotten away with everything
The FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic, and METR, an AI safety research group, over whether agent safety incidents and claims violate existing consumer-protection law.
AI may get rid of our grunt work, but at what cost?
The Wall Street Journal analyzed what disappears when AI removes “busy work” from junior workers’ day-to-day activities.
WSJ calls it “experience starvation” - although reports and spreadsheet work are tedious, they provide entry-level employees the reps to analyze themes, patterns and build judgement.
Takeaways
1. Pretend work is replacing real work.
Instead of having junior workers train for years before interfacing with a real client, companies like EY and Cisco designed simulations for entry-level staff to role play with mock clients and fake coworker interactions.
And yes, young people are missing the pattern recognition development one gets from years of experience, but they’re able to identify patterns and themes much quicker. Do simulations replace judgement and do new professionals have to critically think to the same degree? Nope, but they’re getting to the answers faster.
2. Sorry, Grey’s Anatomy fans. This may be the end of “see one, do one, teach one.”
Young surgeons used to learn from senior surgeons by assisting them on surgeries as residents. Once surgeons started using robots to assist precision work on surgery, residents got 10 to 20 times less hands-on practice.
The most successful residents are hungry for the “see one, do one, teach one” approach, and voluntarily seek out senior surgeons who use few or no robots and simulations for “shadow learning.”
3. Your entry-level job ain’t so entry-level anymore!
Although times are changing, young people are open to new ways of work and developing their own judgement. And it’s a plus that junior workers aren’t grabbing coffee anymore! They’re actually being challenged with mid-level work early on in their careers now.
We dive into topics more on the Lattice Partners podcast, the AI Playbook, previous episodes linked here.
Something you can use
You may want to double-check your local police report…
Santa Ana police issued a community alert and public warning for a reportedly sighted venomous snake, a Gaboon viper, in someone’s backyard. The resident who reported it admitted the image was AI-generated, the report was false, and faced criminal charges for falsifying a police report.
But let’s discuss the more concerning issue at hand here…the police told CBS LA that they checked the photo against an AI detection system and it deemed it as REAL. The officers later came back to CBS LA, saying they used Grok, Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot.
That brings us to this week’s tip.
Ways to tell if a photo is AI
1. Ask Google - open the Google app, use Google Lens on the photo, and ask whether a photo was made with AI
2. Look for content credentials - OpenAI’s Verify tool and Chrome extension can check for you
3. Reverse image search - you can see when an image first appeared online with all of its oldest and newest instances using TinEye
4. Check the source and context - who posted it and did anyone else report it as AI?
And remember the snake. If a checker says the image is “real,” that means it didn’t find proof of AI, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it is real.
This week at Lattice Partners
We’re heading to FABTECH soon!
This week we’ve been prepping for FABTECH and talking to manufacturing clients that need AI transformation or digitization partners.
Our founders Martin, Colin and Christian and our GTM lead Niall will be attending FABTECH in Las Vegas during October 21-23. If you’ll be there, come meet us at booth S21048 in the AIM pavilion!
See you next Wednesday!
Cheers,
Lattice Partners
