OpenAI board chair Bret Taylor says most companies are not designed to get all the possible productivity gains from AI adoption.
In a new interview on the Cheeky Pint podcast, Taylor says the issue is not the technology itself but the way companies are structured.
He says most organizations are still built around traditional departmental hierarchies rather than workflows that can integrate AI efficiently.
“I think part of the reason it’s been slow to get the productivity enhancement is that we ship our org charts as companies naturally. That’s the natural state. There’s usually not a person responsible for that process. There’s the legal team for the contract. There’s the procurement team.”
Taylor says those structures can make it difficult to assign clear ownership over processes that could benefit from automation.
“I think we will end up reimagining our companies with the benefit of AI. Will we actually think of our companies as a collection of processes, have people responsible for the KPIs who can apply AI?”
He says that unless CEOs are prepared to change their corporate structures, they might not reap all the promised productivity gains of AI.
“I bring it up just because that’s my theory of the world. I might be wrong. I might be right. But I’m not sure companies are set up essentially to absorb the benefits of AI efficiently right now, and we need to that to really do so.”
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