starting the conversation - two keynotes at smb in London

Has your firm had a proper, open-ended company-wide conversation about AI yet? No?

Why not? After all, it’s all come at us like a tidal wave.

Everyone’s too busy with everything else. There are always plenty of good reasons not to talk:

We’re only dipping our toes in the water.

People have enough on their plate after the last re-structure.

What AI? Our CEO won’t touch it with bargepole.

What do the sales team know about it if Steve from IT is still assessing options.

Our AI lead thinks we don’t need to talk about AI.

 One firm wanting to talk about the AI future with help from True Human Advantage is the media lawyers Simons, Muirhead, Burton. Based in the heart of Soho, SMB is best known for its traditional strengths in media law – representing film, TV, theatre and production companies, as well as many top showbusiness stars and media talent.  Under Senior Partner Simon Goldberg, the firm has put its ethical core front and centre to represent, pro bono, Lee Castleton and other sub-postmaster victims of the Post Office scandal.

Simon Goldberg, Senior Partner at SMB

SMB's got over 100 employees in the West End, 40 of who joined us for two keynotes in April and May. The room was crammed with highly engaged people desperate to join in the wide-ranging, big picture conversation about AI the sessions allowed them to have for the first time.

What was was said there, of course, will remain forevermore for SMB ears only, but there were a huge variety of opinions and reactions right across age, experience, specialisations and job titles. The jury was very much out on AI afterwards too.

This is exactly how we’d want it to be. Our job in our two keynotes isn’t to tell you and your colleagues what to think. Our job is to give you the right time, place and format to think best in.

 No one has all the answers on AI. No one. But at True Human Advantage we like to think we have some of the right questions.

 Before we enjoyed breakfast at Omotesando Koffee, sitting next to a gaggle of caffienated models. Afterwards we went to Hobgoblin Music, where Paul bought strings for his heavenly lyre and Andreas bluffed his way through a conversation on guitar tunings. No Led Zep tunes were harmed during the writing of this blog.