Succeeding in the age of AI requires more than adopting new tools or rethinking workflows—it demands personal and organizational transformation. Allie K. Miller likens it to burning things down, clearing the way for a new way of working.
Miller today guides businesses through deep cultural and technical change for the age of algorithms. Her advisory firm, Open Machine, works with Novartis, CyberArk, ServiceNow, Warner Bros. Discovery and a major state pension fund. Miller has also worked with LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, advised Melinda French Gates’s Pivotal Ventures, and sits on Arianna Huffington’s scientific advisory board. For organizations, becoming AI-first means undergoing a reinvention of identity, including the willingness to “cannibalize your own business lines” to build something better.
Miller’s own transformation, she says, arrived in a 20-person AI house in San Francisco, where she lived alongside researchers and founders from leading AI organizations including Anthropic. Before founding Open Machine, she launched the first multimodal AI team at IBM and built a formidable AI business as global head of machine learning for startups at AWS. In addition to her advisory work, Miller teaches people how to use AI via online workshops across all seven continents (reaching Antarctica this year). Miller’s aim: to convert one billion people from seeing AI as a source of anxiety to a source of agency.