Samsung Handed AI to Every Employee. The Real Story Is the Training Gate.
Samsung banned generative AI in 2023 after an engineer leaked source code into ChatGPT. This week it handed ChatGPT and Codex to every employee in Korea and its entire global Device division. One of the biggest AI rollouts ever.
But the headline number is not the story. Before a single login went out, Samsung ran a two month bake off and gated access behind required training. Translation: the company knows the tool is now the floor, not the ceiling. Fluency is the climb.
I unpacked what this means for the rest of us, the ones who are about to be handed the same tools at work or school, and the simple way to build fluency before someone hands you access.