Hachette’s CEO writes every email himself. He says AI shortcuts are creating a ‘worse C-suite’
Source: Fortune ·
Executives are saving hours by letting AI summarize articles and write their emails. But some leaders fear delegating these tasks to AI could come with unforeseen consequences.
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Some of the world’s most successful business leaders are voracious readers. Bill Gates told The New York Times in 2016 that he reads 50 books a year. Warren Buffett is said to spend as much as 80% of his working day reading and thinking. In 2000, when a Columbia Business School student asked him how to prepare for a career in investing, Buffett pointed to a stack of reports and told the class to read 500 pages like that every day, because knowledge “builds up, like compound interest.” But a new wave of executives are letting AI do the reading for them, using it to summarize reports, draft emails and, in some cases, speak on their behalf. More than two-thirds (68%) of leaders in the U.S. and U.K. turn to AI to summarize documents and 58% use it to draft emails, according to a survey by General Assembly and coaching firm EZRA. LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky uses AI to help write almost every “high-stakes” email he sends. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella relies on AI agents to digest his inbox…