Cyborg Anthropologist & Futurist
As a Cyborg Anthropologist, MJ Petroni studied shows like Star Trek at university, but not (just) for fun. Their field of study addresses the complex relationships between humans and machines, exploring how we shape technology and how it is reshaping us. They help organizations increase their Digital Fluency in preparation for future technologies, attending not just to tools but also the thinking, skills, data and business models which comprise new value creation. Read More >
MJ's work focuses on raising the lowest common denominator of Digital Fluency for individuals, teams and entire organizations.
As Chief Exponential Officer of Causeit, Inc., MJ builds the business and technology platforms to help companies harness the power of platforms for exponential growth as a speaker, strategist and facilitator. His academic background is in a field of study called Cyborg Anthropology, which studies the relationship between humans and technology. MJ specializes in helping others understand the mental models necessary to navigate new technologies.
Since 2006, Causeit has helped transform how hundreds of clients think about and work towards the future, including Volkswagen, Swift, Google and the Omidyar Foundation. MJ was the Cyborg Anthropologist in Residence for NTT, served as a founding advisor of the Gates Foundation's digital financial platform for poverty alleviation, and is a repeat invitee to the Accenture TechVision Advisory Board. He is an alumnus of Lewis & Clark College and is currently authoring Cybiomes: Biology, Technology and Hope.
MJ sits on the Accenture Tech Vision Advisory Board and is a faculty member at Singularity University. Read Less ^
Digital Fluency
Queer people have created and transformed modern technology, from Turing to Apple CEO Tim Cook and former U.S. CTO Megan Smith, into the trailblazing future of Queer metaverses and cyborg gender. Learn Queer strategies to guide sound design & security based on deconstructing and recombining systems, challenging rules, transforming interfaces, and re/creating identity. Read More >
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Conversational AIs like ChatGPT, BARD, and others seem to be in every headline and LinkedIn post today. Yet implementing conversational AI in a large organization isn't as easy as just creating a free account and asking a few questions—important consideration must be given to intellectual property, ethics, regulation, governance, business models, digital fluency, and adoption. Read More >
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The journey to exponential growth requires minding the gaps between your new journey and the incremental “defaults” of your organization. First, we’ll explore what ‘exponential’ really means in practice. How do we create room for exponential innovation while still making progress on incremental innovation? How do we create room for exponential innovation while still making progress on incremental innovation? Learn how to transform communications around four key gaps—in vision, expectations, accountability and resources—to ensure your exponential projects aren’t blocked by incremental thinking. Read More >
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-The vision gap: make an exponential possibility accessible
-The expectations gap: differentiate between incremental and exponential initiatives
-The metrics gap: make progress visible and accountability possible
-The resource gap: prepare for exponentially-increasing needs without over-investing Read Less ^
Generative AI tools go beyond Q&A with ChatGPT. Major brands like Adobe, Shutterstock and Canva are joining the ranks of labs like Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and Deep Agency to revolutionize how everyday people can bring their ideas to life in illustration, 3D worlds, video and music. Education is also confronted by the possibilities and risks of generative AI tools for research assistance, writing support, and more. How do we think through the impact of entire creative and education domains suddenly undergoing an explosion of content? And what will our culture value most about education and art as these fields transform? Read More >
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Generative AIs are like super-knowledgeable coworkers promising massive benefits. However, they have other red flags we wouldn't tolerate in a human, like confident BS about subjects they don't understand, plagiarism, and a lack of critical thinking. It's time we look carefully at this new class of tools and their implications for work, life, education, and more. Read More >
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Digital transformation is creating a world where businesses must test new, exponential strategies like generative AI/ChatGPT while maintaining incremental business functions to keep the lights on. Read More >
How can we manage this balance between old and new, and choose which path to modernization is right for us? To lead our companies in the era of AI, we need to increase our Digital Fluency. Five key areas are critical to focus on: thinking, skills, tools, data, and business models.
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