Sep 11, 2026 · 59 min · 9 segments
Future-of-work strategist Nirit Cohen returns to What’s Your Work Fit? to explore a provocative question: Who owns my workplace AI? We discuss whether employers can own how AI learns the way we think…
Nirit CohenGuest
Dan SmolinHost
Fran SaleyHost
Shouldn't all companies be doing this? I mean, maybe the cynic in me, Narit, is speaking here.
I'm sure there are companies that value the human intelligence of their people, their ability to discern, their ability to use empathy, to be curious, to use all those skills, to be experimental on the job.
You know, when I saw this headline, I was actually thinking it might be Ernst & Young's way of contrasting their messaging with McKenzie's comment that they were... giving agents, you know, ID numbers and email accounts and Deloitte's messaging that they're going to downgrade the benefits of some of the people categories that they really don't think they might need long term.
And I don't know the answer to that, but I still think, and it goes back to this idea that we are not working hands and thinking minds.
There's a whole layer of uniquely human nuances of work that we don't even have the language to call.
the uniquely human value add that goes into what we do is I always think about this, you know, I think about the presentation story.
And so I had to go give a presentation and I, you know, I play around with these tools as they come up.
And I gave a whole bunch of tools, my story and wanted to see what they came back with, which was beautifully crafted and completely useless, right? Because you could say maybe I'm not good enough in telling them what I'm trying to tell, but frankly, when I build a presentation, I don't care about the beautiful colors.
What I care about is taking you through a journey, knowing where we started, where we're going to go, and how I'm going to get you there.
Shouldn't all companies be doing this? I mean, maybe the cynic in me, Narit, is speaking here.
I'm sure there are companies that value the human intelligence of their people, their ability to discern, their ability to use empathy, to be curious, to use all those skills, to be experimental on the job.
You know, when I saw this headline, I was actually thinking it might be Ernst & Young's way of contrasting their messaging with McKenzie's comment that they were... giving agents, you know, ID numbers and email accounts and Deloitte's messaging that they're going to downgrade the benefits of some of the people categories that they really don't think they might need long term.
And I don't know the answer to that, but I still think, and it goes back to this idea that we are not working hands and thinking minds.
There's a whole layer of uniquely human nuances of work that we don't even have the language to call.
the uniquely human value add that goes into what we do is I always think about this, you know, I think about the presentation story.
And so I had to go give a presentation and I, you know, I play around with these tools as they come up.
And I gave a whole bunch of tools, my story and wanted to see what they came back with, which was beautifully crafted and completely useless, right? Because you could say maybe I'm not good enough in telling them what I'm trying to tell, but frankly, when I build a presentation, I don't care about the beautiful colors.
What I care about is taking you through a journey, knowing where we started, where we're going to go, and how I'm going to get you there.
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