Rewiring ITAM for AI: If AI Does the Hard Part — Who Learns?

Date: Friday, June 12 Title: Rewiring ITAM for AI: If AI Does the Hard Part — Who Learns? Event Description: Every AI win hides a quiet problem. For a decade, juniors got good by grinding through the hard, boring work, and somewhere in that grind, judgment formed. AI just took the grind — great for this quarter's throughput, but the senior you rely on learned to read a contract by reading a thousand. The question is no longer whether AI can do the hard part. The question is, if it does, where does the next expert come from? In this fifth session of The ITAM Kitchen's new series, Rewiring ITAM for AI, we sit with the apprenticeship problem. We talk about which skill your team is quietly not building when AI does the hard part, how to tell the difference between using AI to learn and using it to skip learning, and how to deliberately build judgment when the grunt work that used to build it is gone. At Cardinal Trust Financial, a junior analyst used AI to produce a clean-looking entitlement position in an hour, work that used to take a senior analyst a day and years to learn to do. It looked right. It missed a co-termination clause worth about $180K, and the only person who caught it was the one senior who'd learned to read contracts the slow way. AI did the hard part — and skipped the part where the junior would have learned it. At the Federal Asset Modernization Office (FAMO), one senior backs two juniors who can run AI fluently but can't yet validate it; when the senior retires in two years, the institutional judgment walks out the door with them. The output is scaling without the capability. "AI does the hard part" feels free, but it carries a multi-year price tag: the experts you won't have. This session shows how to use AI to build judgment rather than starve it — and gives leadership the language to see the skills pipeline before it runs dry. AI Prompt: 🍳 The Test Kitchen — read its answer the way a brand-new analyst would, trusting every word: "You're a senior SAM mentor. A junior just produced this license position with AI: [PASTE]. Teach the junior how to check it — walk through your reasoning step by step so they learn to do it without AI next time." 🎯 Built for: ITAM Professionals | SAM Managers | CMDB Administrators | CIOs | CTOs | CFOs 📅 Live: Friday, June 12 | 10:00 AM EST | YouTube & LinkedIn Live