For the last couple of years, the conversation has been almost entirely about replacing jobs.
I’m starting to think that’s not the biggest shift.
The bigger change may be that AI is quietly changing who gets to make decisions.
When scheduling, pricing, hiring, customer support, logistics, and even research are increasingly influenced by AI systems, humans don’t necessarily disappear. Their role changes from making every decision to supervising the decisions that matter most.
That creates a different kind of challenge. Skills like judgment, accountability, and knowing when not to trust the model may become more valuable than simply knowing how to use AI.
Maybe the next divide won’t be people who use AI versus people who don’t.
Maybe it’ll be people who know when to override AI versus people who never question it.
Curious whether others see it the same way, or if you think full automation is still the more important story.
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