From the course: Smarter Thinking and Better Living in an AI World: A Conversation with Daniel Pink

How can AI help in premortem planning and minimzing failure?

From the course: Smarter Thinking and Better Living in an AI World: A Conversation with Daniel Pink

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How can AI help in premortem planning and minimzing failure?

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- In the course, you have a lovely video on pre-mortem planning, and this is all about anticipating obstacles, - Right. - So do you have any advice how might AI be used to simulate potential failures and then improve project planning by anticipate obstacles and other things that might stand in your way? - I will now, 'cause I think that's a brilliant use of it. I truly didn't fathom that until this conversation. I think it's a brilliant use of AI. What you can do is you can describe the project that you're embarking on and you can say, now AI, imagine it is X number of years later and this thing has completely collapsed. Give me, you know, eight reasons why this thing collapsed. And then you can begin interrogating it with other questions. Well, why did that happen? Why did that happen? And then say, in my estimation, Claude or ChatGPT, or whoever, reasons 1, 3, 4, and six make a lot of sense to me. Now let's brainstorm some solutions on how I can avoid those, those pitfalls. I think it is a brilliant tool for pre-mortem. - And that goes beyond, you know, shouting to your colleague at the water cooler because it offers history and you know research in terms of like everything that's ever gone wrong in all of, you know, all of history. - Right, right. It's more, it's a great way to put it actually. It's that use of it is less of a shout and more of a conversation. And so, I mean, if we can think about the various roles here, you can have, you know, AI as a partner, AI as a coach, AI as a colleague. So in this case, do I want to use AI as my colleague and shout something across the room? Do I want to use AI as a coach to help me get better? Or do I want to use AI as a collaborator and really get into a conversation, asking you questions, having it explain its reasoning.

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