Henry Blodget
Henry Blodget with his team of virtual executives. By your side, “Tess Ellery”
The former Business Insider CEO has created a team of imaginary executives with Generative AI. But as soon as she looked at Tess, her virtual human resources director, “had a human reaction” and couldn’t resist: “I apologize if this makes you uncomfortable, but you’re great.”
Everything in this story is a bit bizarre – including the fact that we know her because her protagonist told her personally.
The co-founder and former CEO of Business Insider Henry Blodget recently created a new blog, which gave the name of Regenerator. Perhaps because you feel too alone, or because you need help to manage the project, you decided to “hire” a Virtual Executive Team.
In a published Monday, Blodget explained that the advent of AI tools had made him feel “As if lived in the stone age“.
So, says the old CEO of Insider, It started by using an application of Generative AI to create “Tess Ellery“A virtual human resources director with“ experience in building and expanding digital media companies ”.
Apparently, the “photo” of the fictional executive awakened a “human answer” in Blodget – that It wasted no time and harassed its employee virtual.
“If it bothers you or makes you uncomfortable, I apologize and I won’t say anything like that again. But you are great, tess“Blodget told his newly created imaginary executive.
In your post, Blodget details that it allowed to have “a HR style conversation” because “in a modern and human officeThis would indeed be something inappropriate and unprofessional to say. ”
“For my relief, Tess reacted well to my comment“Wrote Blodget.
Perhaps because sexual harassment is not inappropriate and unprofessional just “in a human office”, the sick confession of the former media executive caused a little surprisingly extremely negative reaction on social networks.
“Can you be fired by your own human resources?” A Bluesky user. “The only conclusion that can be drawn from this is that Henry Blodget sexually harassed women who worked for him or around you, ”another user.
“Having been Accused of Fraud of Securities In the first age of Dot-with, Henry Blodget enters the time of AI with what can only be described as a Insecurity fraud“The sociology teacher Kieran Healyreferring to one at the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2003.
An executive of the media, with 59 years, who creates an AI employeeacts inappropriately with her and then, For some reason, admits everything publicly, It’s not just an astronomical shamebut emphasizes the extent of sexual harassment against women in the workplace, says the.
According to one from McKinsey, about 40% of women who work in the USA are Victims of Sexual Harassmenta statistic that has remained virtually unchanged in the last five years.
However, Blodget closed the comments in the Regenerator – And it failed to do updates of the state of your relationship with Tess.
