Nestlé CEO says AI skills go far beyond writing good prompts

Philipp Navratil, who runs Nestlé and its 270,000-plus employees worldwide suggest that you can write a flawless prompt and still fall behind. He told Business Insider that the Nestlé CEO's AI skills checklist runs well past triggering a chatbot.

Philipp Navratil, who runs Nestlé and its 270,000-plus employees worldwide suggest that you can write a flawless prompt and still fall behind. He told Business Insider that the Nestlé CEO’s AI skills checklist runs well past triggering a chatbot.

Navratil still holds that his employees should know the business and the technologies they have been equipped with.

He hopes that they will understand AI. One does not need the technicalities of AI, Navratil says, but one must know the larger implications of AI, its applications, future possibilities, and impact on the company.

Too many people file AI under “tool”, Navratil said.

While Navratil’s focus is on the process, not the software. Redesign the task to remove the unnecessary process that the technology will do. This saved time will then be used to analyse the data and meet with business partners.

The CEO of Coinbase, Greg Brockman of OpenAI, and Paul Graham, the co-founder of Y Combinator, have all emphasised judgement and taste as AI becomes responsible for more tasks.

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Graham says, “When anyone can make anything, your choice of what to make distinguishes you.”

Expect more bosses to judge you on how you redesign your work, not on how many AI tools you have open. If your own routine looks the same as it did a year ago, that’s the first thing to question.