Consider how Napster, the networked file sharing system, upended the music industry. The emergence of generative AI language models like ChatGPT, has much in common with this Napster-initiated inflection point: a breakthrough technology with breathtakingly fast adoption, appropriation of other people’s data (OPD), and predictions of doom and obsolescence. Similarly, the generative AI revolution that ChatGPT has catalyzed is not going to be reversed. Leaders should look to three touchstones…