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The Art of Balancing Automation and Creativity 

By now, we’ve learned that AI can execute many tasks just as well as humans — if not better. In the process, we’ve also learned that some tasks make more sense for AI to handle than others. Rote jobs like customer service or accounting are ideal for AI, while creative disciplines like designing or writing are a bit more complicated, though still possible to a certain degree. 

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Your Input Needed! - PR Professional Research (SURVEY)

PRophet teamed up with The Harris Poll, a leading independent research company, to better understand trends in the Public Relations industry, especially around comms-tech and AI. Please take 10-minutes to complete our survey. Your response is critical to understanding the industry’s needs for solutions to some of our biggest challenges and opportunities. 

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My Old Man

“My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, ‘You’re tearing up the grass.’ ‘We’re not raising grass,’ Dad would reply. ‘We’re raising boys’.”– Harmon Killebrew

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Women Leaders are Good for Business 

The struggles of women in the workplace have been well documented.

The challenges range from discrimination to the gender pay gap, and the lingering concept that men are more effective in leadership roles. A recent study revealed that in fact, women get higher marks for leadership in mid-level and senior leadership roles, even when they serve in traditionally male-dominated industries. Women deserve equal consideration for promotion, pay equal to their male counterparts, and to be treated with equal respect.

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How Should People Feel about Machines?

We used to only have to worry about the feelings of people.  Now we need to be careful not to offend a brand-new category of ‘beings’—machines.  At least that’s what an engineer from one of the world’s top tech companies suggests.  Whether artificial intelligence is sentient is an intriguing question, but a related concern is more pressing—the expanding space that smartphones and other digital machines fill in our lives.

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