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The Two Year AI Exec Test

9 October 2026 · Written and published by Dean Moon on LinkedIn

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November 2022. ChatGPT is available for public testing.

What were you thinking?

What were your thoughts?

What were you doing then?

What excitement did you feel?

What reservations did you have?


A lot of change since that period.

The hype cycle has gone up and down.

People have lost their jobs. New jobs have been created.

And we're in a period where the frontier labs are now talking about regulation around a technology that they've built, which creates a potentially existential threat.

But that really affected hundreds of millions of people around the world at that time.


Companies laying off staff.

Executives making 'executive decisions'.

And then a rinse-recycle process of people being rehired in different companies.

I asked myself, how much value has been lost and recycled in the corporate humdrum of the hype cycle two years ago?


Where were you as an executive?

Were you leaning in?

Were you leaning out?

Were you sitting on the outside looking in?

Are you now an AI leader in your respective field?

Because there's no such thing as an AI leader.

There are practitioners and there are preachers.

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