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Learning objectives
After the lesson the participant can:
- Explain why one risk rating, one owner and one decision cannot be applied to a box labelled AI.
- Report Eurostat's 2025 figures on technologies and purposes per enterprise, separating published shares from the author's estimates.
- Count the units of an organisation by usage mode, including the Mode 0 line nobody procured.
- Rewrite a singular question about the AI or the cloud as plural questions a landscape can answer.
Key concepts
- The box instinct
- The habit of drawing AI as one box, and the cloud as one cloud, when the measured landscape is many uses of many kinds at many levels. The other eight instincts stand on it.
- Aggregate, not a question
- Uses at least one AI technology is derived from answers about eight technologies asked one at a time; nobody was asked it. The 2025 aggregate rests on eight technologies where earlier years had seven.
- The cloud as a stack
- Eurostat groups ten cloud services into basic, intermediate and sophisticated. In 2025, 5.56 per cent of enterprises bought only basic services, 5.69 per cent at most intermediate ones and 40.89 per cent at least one sophisticated service.
- A unit is a use
- The notation draws one way of putting a model to work, not a system, a vendor or a product. When one product drafts for a person and also acts on its own, it is written as two lines.
- Rule of thumb: which ones
- When someone says the AI or the cloud, ask which ones, and count them before you judge them. The rule stops applying once the units are known; aggregation is not wrong if you can open the aggregate.
Interactive exercises
Do them here and get feedback at once. Choose a card and then where it belongs, or drag it.
Interactive exercise 1 · Sort
The cloud is a stack
Sort the cloud services into the three groups Eurostat uses, as the chapter gives them.
Interactive exercise 2 · Scenario
A paper about the AI system
Read the situation and choose what the committee member should do, following the chapter's advice to an executive.
Teaching plan
| 10 min | Opening: the teacher presents the four-page committee paper headed The AI system and asks the room whether the committee can answer its question as put. |
| 20 min | Lecture on the evidence with Figures 5.1 to 5.3: technologies per enterprise, the seven purposes and how large enterprises reorder them, and the three layers of the cloud stack. |
| 10 min | Guided reading of Figures 5.4 and 5.5: participants count colours, shapes and seats in Nordvik Region's V1, then count containers in its V3. |
| 25 min | Exercise: participants turn a box into a count and draft the first lines of a landscape model. |
| 10 min | Closing: the rule of thumb, its two halves and where it stops applying; each participant states the unit in their count that they would look at first. |
Discussion
- ICT security is the most common purpose among large AI-using enterprises and the wrong answer for the EU average. Where in your own work do you take the kind of AI you know for the whole?
- The chapter says a landscape without the Mode 0 line shows what was decided rather than what runs. Who in your organisation would be able to write that line today?
- A committee needs each item to be one thing it can approve, pause or reject. How can a paper respect that need without drawing the box?
Written exercise
Exercise · 25 minutes
From the box to the count
Take a recent paper, slide or strategy sentence from your own organisation that says the AI or the cloud in the singular; if you have none, use Nordvik Region's committee paper from the chapter. Write one line per unit in the form of the chapter's condensed model fragment: an identifier, a name, the usage mode and a status. Split any product that both drafts for a person and acts on its own into two lines, and write the Mode 0 line even though nobody procured it. Then apply the executive's three questions to your count: which unit has no named decision-holder, which touch 10,000 or more people a year, and which act at Level 4 Autonomous.
Deliverable: A list of units with identifier, name, usage mode and status, with the Mode 0 line included, and written answers to the three questions.
Self-test
Choose an answer to see whether it is right, or open the answer below each question.
The chapter says about four in ten AI-using EU enterprises used three or more AI technologies in 2025. What is the status of that figure?
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C. The author's estimate, from dividing Eurostat's 8.28 per cent by its 19.95 per cent
Eurostat publishes both shares as shares of all enterprises: 19.95 per cent used at least one technology and 8.28 per cent at least three. Dividing one by the other gives about 41.5 per cent, which the author calls his estimate.In Nordvik Region's one-page landscape of 1 January 2027, how many units are drawn and how many does the model hold?
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A. Eleven are drawn; the model holds thirteen, two of them planned for later in the year
Eleven units are drawn in five usage modes. The model holds thirteen entries; the SOC triage assistant and the exposure prioritisation are planned and are not drawn before they start.Why does pausing the AI system, as the committee paper proposes, not work as a single decision at Nordvik Region?
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B. Because it would pause some units, could not pause others, and would make no difference to features the vendors run
The thing in the rectangle is thirteen entries, among them a high-risk ranking system, a public assistant and vendor features nobody chose. One vote would pause some, could not pause others, and would not touch the features the vendors run.