What will force the use of AI is not ‘thought leaders’ parroting about AI, or tech companies cramming it into literally every product.
What will force the use of AI is customer expectations.
This has been the case for every technology ever.
When the first combines replaced manual labor, the expectation became 20 bushels of corn harvested a day instead of 2.
When email replaced postal mail, delivery expectations were measured in minutes, not days.
When smartphones and apps took over, consumers expected to swipe right on everything. Want a box of cereal, a bottle of wine, a car, a date? Swipe right and it’s on your doorstep.
Expectations expand to fill the standard set by the technology.
What expectations does AI set for your industry? If your content marketing team takes 2 weeks to produce a piece and a competitor using AI takes 2 minutes to produce a piece, the expectation is set at 2 minutes. That’s the standard, the bar, right or wrong.
“But quality!” some will say, reasonably so. Yet we gladly sacrifice quality, privacy, sustainability, equity, and pretty much everything else in favor of faster and cheaper. Faster and cheaper is what the consumer wants because we’ve abandoned patience, as Ann Handley says. Patience is a liability. And faster and cheaper is what our businesses want because it means increased profit margins.
Take a hard, honest look at your value chain. Where will AI change expectations and set standards?
If you’re not adopting it, where will you be expected to meet those standards, with or without AI? You can absolutely say, as a differentiator, that you delivery 100% authentic human content – but you had better be able to meet the faster and cheaper standards set by AI regardless.
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