Leading AI

Hello, I'm Vincent Huguet, CEO and co-founder of Malt,and I'm delighted to speak with you today about the impact of artificial intelligence on the world of work.intelligence on the world of work.

Hello, my name is Martin Bonnefond, I'm a finance consultant at Factorial and I'm thrilled to be here with you today to talk about artificial intelligence.

Hello Vincent and Martin.On The Deck works as follows: you will first answer a question without knowing what the other person has answered.

Then, you'll have the opportunity to share your impressions and dive deeper into your answers. Let's go.

Question 1: We're shifting from doing to steering AI.

What skill is becoming truly key today?A: knowing how to orchestrate, B: knowing how to decide, C: knowing how to learn fast, D: the Joker.

Orchestrating and deciding are both going to be very important,but I choose C: learning fast, because above all it's a cultural and learning shift.

Well, with the answers I have available, I would go with,and I'm even sure about it, this one: knowing how to decide, which seems to me to be the most important.

Hello Vincent. Hello.You said you knew how to make decisions. Exactly.

The first was knowing how to orchestrate.I said I'm a quick learner. Is that right?

That's right.Why did I say knowing how to decide?It comes from the experience we have today with prospects and clients we deal with on a daily basis, and also the various conferences we've attended.

I did one in Lyon not long ago, at the April Group.

The question mostly comes up in relation to implementation — who decides and why.

That was my first reading on this subject:properly deciding both the scope, what problem we want to solve, and potentially the solutions we want to find through the use of AI.

That said, I haven't yet answered the question of why this particular skill, but in any case, in discussions,we see that decision-making is essential in order to even tackle this topic, especially from a technical standpoint.

Right, I'm aligned — the way I understood the question,it's a bit like you said: we're moving away from doing.

What I see with a lot of clients is that they're still somewhat in POC mode, proof of concept, and they want to deploy,and that's where all sorts of issues come up.

Orchestrating is also true.We talk a lot about orchestration, even though it's a technical topic — agent orchestration, which is tied to everything around security,guardrails, etc.

Because if you let agents do whatever they want,it's going to get complicated.

But decision-making, and specifically the involvement of top management, is going to be critically important.

I still chose knowing how to learn fast because what I see in my own company, or with our freelancer community, is that ultimately, it's a cultural shift.

Just like the digital transformation was, maybe 20 years ago — this is another transformation where you need to know how to adapt, and you need to know how to learn.

That's why I chose that one.And in relation to that, within the concept of learning, what would you highlight at your company?

Where does the learning start?Is it vocabulary, is it immediate hands-on application,is it encounters with new products, or is it more of a freedom — you say: Do whatever you want, and report back to us afterward?

How do you organize it?I think it starts above all with curiosity.

We try to nurture it... We try to demonstrate.We're very active, for example with my CTO, in sharing things happening in the market.

We come back from 15 days in San Francisco, we share and show what we saw.

But then we push people to be more curious, and we also integrate it into our hiring processes.

It's one of the criteria today for hiring people who are — I think we've always had it, but now it's much more formalized — people who are going to be curious.

Curious, you could say builder, doer, entrepreneurial — people who will challenge the status quo and who will invent

Question number 2.With 22% of non-tech jobs already impacted by AI, are all job descriptions already obsolete?