The Pyramid Was Always Wrong: Matthew Barzun on Giving Away Power

In Conversation with UX Magazine by Invisible Machines

Jul 23, 20261:08:33Technology

Most organizations, and most conversations about AI, default to triangles: who's on top and who's below? Are we the boss of the machines or is it the other way around? Matthew Barzun argues the comfortable shape is a tra...

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