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Artificial Intelligence "more dangerous than nukes!"

Elon Musk hit the stage at SXSW this week to talk Mars, Tesla and Artificial Intelligence. I don't know about you, but the informative interview left me with way more questions than answers, particularity when it comes to the subject of AI. The Government commissioned an independent review into the development of AI in the UK last year. The findings were that AI shouldn't be subject to direct regulation, but an AI council should oversea the industry. Are the suggestions of Wendy Hall and BenevolentTech CEO Jérôme Pesenti enough to keep us safe? Should we not demand regulation and controls over the development of AI? As Elon says, you wouldn't let just anyone build a nuke! (Cheery stuff ay?!!!). According to Elon, it is inevitable the world will slip into a dark age... he should try being a Spurs fan, like me! Here are the recommendations following the Government review, which to me feels insufficient. What do you think? Read the original article here.

Case Studies

Kohler

Kohler is one of the oldest and largest privately held companies in North America.

The Partnership.

Kohler is one of the oldest and largest privately held companies in North America, mostly known for their kitchen and bath business. They have multiple industries and products that they create. One of which is their power generator manufacturing unit, which is one of the larges in the world. Traditionally they have offered power generation equipment for residential, industrial, mobile, marine applications, and more.

The challenges they were facing.

They have been gradually scaling up their UK team with key strategic hires to compliment the internal organic growth of their existing employees.

This is a great example of a client Piper Maddox has grown alongside, being able to assist with hires across multiple different business units over three plus years by truly understanding the company's values and goals.

The solutions we presented.

Kohler had an extensive internal recruitment team, however they were not too familiar with the clean energy industry and the challenges that the industry faced, specifically when it came to energy storage experience. They realized that they needed to engage with a specialist firm that could help get their story to the market and attract talent in an industry that has never been more competitive.

Piper Maddox was able to leverage our Energy Storage team, which had been working in the space for 7 years, and our Grid Edge division to support across several different disciplines and skill sets.

We supported across sales, application engineering, product development, embedded engineers, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, controls engineering, and more.

Results.

We were able to deliver an exceptional quality of service, identify the best talent in the industry, and deliver the Kohler story to the market in the most compelling way possible.

Throughout the partnership (2021-2023) we were engaged across 65 different vacancies, represented 458 candidates, of which 408 were selected for interview, resulting in 48 placements.

Through the quality of service and the quality of the delivery by Piper Maddox, Kohler were delighted with the solution implemented and our service exceeded the expectations of the business.

Testimonial.

“I have had the pleasure of working with Matt for the past year and have been nothing less than impressed.

Matt is a highly collaborative business partner and is focused on being solution-oriented, no matter how difficult the situation! I know that I can rely on Matt to always deliver, in a creative and positive way!”

Erin Henning – Sr. Director Global Talent Acquisition