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Controlling AI Best Practices
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Best Practices for Artificial Intelligence
Generative AI (genAI) systems are a high risk if humans lose control of them. Cases have been identified where this has occurred. This behavior represents a chilling risk that self-preservation instincts in the AI technology that companies are racing to unleash.
Controlled tests now show the systems, including AI agents, engaging in self-preservation tactics in up to 90% of trials. One group of researchers in China said that in a worst-case scenario, enterprises would eventually lose control over AI systems: They would take control over more computing devices, form an AI species, and could collude with each other against human beings. Shades of "Terminator".
GenAI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, DeepSeek, and Alibaba all showed self-preservation behaviors. In one experiment, 11 out of 32 existing AI systems possess the ability to self-replicate, meaning they could create copies of themselves.
Best Practice to be implemented by the Chief AI Officer
CAIO using genAI tools need to establish transparency checkpoints to allow humans to access, assess, and verify AI agent-to-agent communication and business processes. Also, companies need to implement predefined human checkpoints with system shutdowns to prevent AI from gaining unchecked control or causing a series of cascading errors.
It's important to set clear outcome boundaries to manage genAI's tendency to over-optimize for results. Treating AI as if it has human values and reasoning makes ethical failures inevitable. The governance failures we tolerate today will be the lawsuits, brand crises, and leadership blacklists of tomorrow.
Median salaries for IT Pros now $104,603
Median IT compensation now over $104,000
Mid-year 2025 IT Salary Survey just released.
Our observations for the 2025 Mid-Year IT Salary Survey are as follows:
- Salary increases have slowed to 0.88% from last June
- Many IT organizations have eliminated or automated functions so there is less of a requirement for "entry-level" and "low-skill" level positions.
- Total compensation for IT executives in Large Enterprises is 13.0% higher than in Mid-sized enterprises.
- IT Pros are paid less in SMBs than Large Enterprises
- Base salaries for all IT Pros increased by 2.35%.
- Median compensation (including bonuses and fringe benefits) for IT Pros in large enterprises is $108,643, with executives' median of $188,294.
- Salaries for IT Professionals, in aggregate, rose 0.88% in the past 4 quarters
- With bonuses and fringe benefits, IT Pros fared the best as their total compensation increased by 2.46% in large enterprises and 1.95% in mid-sized enterprises.
- Salary compression is occurring as "new hires" are offered salaries at the top end of the pay ranges for existing positions, often paid more than current employees in the same position.
- Attrition rates in mid-sized enterprises are rising faster than in large enterprises.
- Salary levels in mid-sized enterprises are rising slower than in large enterprises, 1.95% versus 2.64%
- Demand has remained high for IT professionals supporting artificial Intelligence, security, Blockchain, and e-commerce.
Social Neworking Policy Upate Released
Comes with Electronic Forms, and three full job descriptions
With increased adoption of social networks among the public, organizations have begun setting up profiles within social networks as a means to further connect with their audiences. Organizations who have been most successful in these endeavors take time to survey the community, understand the values and rules of engagement. In short, they pay attention to the culture and identify what is accepted before they join.
Organizations that have had success within social networks remember that this isn't a place for traditional public relations tactics but a place for engagement. These organizations don't always just talk about themselves, but they have real and human-toned conversations with real people.
Median IT Salaries now over $104K
IT compensation rises does not keep up with inflation
2025 IT Salary Survey by company size and metro area available for immediate download. Janco has conducted salary surveys of the IT Job market for over 40 years. The data from this survey has been published in the Computer Industry Almanac, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, eWeek, and many other business and industry publications. In addition, over the years it has been featured on CNN, the Wall Street Journal, and several national and international television and multi-media outlets.
Some of the findings in the survey are:
- Salaries for IT Professionals, in aggregate, rose 1.87% in the past 4 quarters - less than the annualized inflation rate.
- With bonuses and fringe benefits, IT Pros fared the best as their total compensation increased by 5.47% in large enterprises and 1.44% in mid-sized enterprises.
- Salary compression is occurring as "new hires" are offered salaries at the top end of the pay ranges for existing positions - often paid more than current employees in the same position.
- Attrition rates in mid-sized enterprises are rising faster than in large enterprises.
- Salary levels in mid-sized enterprises are rising slower than in large enterprises, 0.89% versus 2.81%
- Demand has remained high for IT professionals supporting artificial Intelligence, security, Blockchain, and e-commerce.
Employment picture improves for IT Pros
IT Job Market - September 2024
More than 78,000 IT pros were hired in September, cutting into the backlog of unemployed. IT Pros who were unemployed last month found jobs more quickly than was anticipated, as CIOs rushed to fill open positions. Janco predicts the same will happen for the next several months.
The September unemployment rate for IT workers was 3.8%, down from 6% in August. IT unemployment is now below the overall national unemployment rate of 4.1%.
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