Lloyds Bank and Reddit share lessons on adopting AI

Lloyds Bank and Reddit are taking similar approaches to rolling out AI across their organizations, emphasizing experimentation and learning from failure—not just rapid success. Lloyds launched AI training for all 67,000 employees and built an AI Center of Excellence in 2023. Both companies encourage staff beyond engineering to try out AI, with leadership explicitly welcoming experiments that go wrong as long as lessons are learned.

• Lloyds Bank launched AI training for all employees
• Reddit encourages non-technical staff to use AI
• Both organizations value learning from failed AI experiments
• AI adoption paired with active governance and monitoring