AI Literacy for Leaders

Over 90 percent of U.S. employers now use AI to screen job applicants. And over 60 percent of the Fortune 100 runs that screening through the same vendor model. A 2026 study from Stanford, Chapman, and Northeastern Universities — the largest independent research ever conducted on deployed hiring algorithms, reveals what that concentration is actually doing to real people at scale.   Researchers an...

Every AI tool your team uses today runs on infrastructure most leaders have never been taught to think about. It’s called an API — and once you understand what it is, your entire mental model of what your team can actually do with AI right now is going to shift. In this episode, Laurence breaks down the mechanism that connects your organization to world-class AI — no technical background required....

Did you know that Two-thirds of business leaders say they won't hire someone who lacks AI skills.   Only 39% of professionals know which AI skills they're supposed to develop.   That gap — between what organizations are demanding and what the workforce understands — is the most important career opportunity most leaders are ignoring.   Here's what's actually happening:   AI is not r...

There is a technical role spreading through enterprise hiring right now that most executives have never heard of. It is not a data scientist. It is not a prompt engineer. It is a generative AI engineer — and understanding what one of these people actually builds is one of the most important things a non-technical leader can do right now. In this episode, Laurence Gill breaks down what a gen AI eng...

Every AI strategy meeting has a translation problem. Leaders are approving systems, signing contracts, and setting policy based on terms they’ve never had defined for them. The vendor speaks. The room nods. The decision gets made and somewhere in the middle, something critical got lost. This episode fixes that. Not with a glossary. By walking through exactly how an AI interaction works, from the m...

In this episode, Laurence Gill breaks down the two core failure patterns behind most enterprise AI deployments that don’t deliver: ROT data — the redundant, obsolete, and trivial information making up 30 to 50% of most organizational data environments — and the Demo-to-Reality Gap, the structural disconnect between flawless pilot performance and real-world failure. He closes with three diagnostic...

You’ve been using AI tools for months. So why do you have less time than before? The answer is 150 years old. In 1865, an economist named William Stanley Jevons discovered something deeply counterintuitive: when a technology becomes more efficient, total consumption of the resource it saves tends to go up — not down. More efficient coal engines didn’t reduce coal use. They made coal cheaper to run...

Ransomware attacks on hospitals are not a technology problem — they are a patient safety crisis. In Episode 4, Laurence Gill draws on his background as a doctoral candidate in cybersecurity and two decades of federal IT leadership to break down why healthcare is the number one ransomware target in the country, how these attacks produce documented patient harm, and why the ransom decision is a clin...

AI doesn’t just get things wrong. It gets things wrong with complete confidence — citing studies that don’t exist, building logical arguments around biological impossibilities, and delivering dangerous recommendations in the fluent, authoritative voice of a clinical expert. In healthcare, that gap between confidence and accuracy isn’t an inconvenience. It’s a patient safety crisis. In Episode 3 of...

What happens when AI stops responding and starts doing? In Episode 2 of AI Literacy for Leaders, Laurence Gill breaks down one of the most revealing stress tests ever run on autonomous AI agents — a research experiment called Agents of Chaos, where AI systems were given real tools: email accounts, file access, and the ability to execute commands. Then they were let loose. What the researchers foun...

Learn more about Laurence Gill at: www.laurencegill.com The headlines say AI is transforming everything. The data tells a different story. In this debut episode of AI Literacy for Leaders, host Laurence Gill breaks down one of the most sobering statistics in enterprise technology today — 95% of AI initiatives are delivering zero measurable ROI. That means for every 20 AI projects your organization...

Canada and Germany signed a major joint declaration of intent. They're launching a new sovereign technology alliance.

France officially banned Microsoft Teams, Zoom, google and Cisco Webex platforms for all government use. In this episode I explain why.