| Seeing eye to eye about AI isn’t exactly straightforward. On one hand, CIOs see it as a stimulus for job creation while on the other, CEOs and boards see it as a way to prune the workforce to achieve a more efficient means to deliver value. Neither is wrong, but understanding a range of perspectives is crucial to knowing why.
In today’s lead story, Grant Gross is on the front line of this “collision course,” with intel from Deloitte showing nearly seven in 10 IT leaders planning to increase headcount in response to AI, while heavy hitters like Meta, Salesforce, Microsoft, and Intel recently announced over 24,000 job cuts related to it. Amazon is poised to do the same, and some IT leaders are seeing the writing on the wall regarding the future of work. Yet other enterprise leaders empathize with team-building models. The variance of opinions might be due to clashing timelines, budget strategies, expectations of what AI can actually accomplish, or a combination of all three.
Overall, despite the exceptions, bridging the disconnect between hands-on CIOs and more removed, cost-minded boards is where unanimous progress will be made.
 | Carl Friedmann, Executive Regional Editor, CIO |
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