Kate Prouty, the chief information officer at Akamai Technologies , says workers at the cybersecurity and cloud computing company have developed a voracious appetite for artificial intelligence. They firmly believe that those with sharper AI skills will have an advantage.

“The demand for AI is out of control,” says Prouty. “It feels like a tsunami. Everyone feels like they need AI.”

While such enthusiasm may make it easier for Akamai to see strong adoption rates when new AI tools are deployed, it can also come with organizational challenges for leaders like Prouty, who oversees the company’s global IT organization and is responsible for assessing, testing, and deploying new AI tools to be used by over 9,000 employees globally.

Following the beginning of the generative AI boom in late

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