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In 2025 AI Systems Will Replace Humans, What Should You Do?
I'm believing less and less in Co-intelligence and Augmentation, And more and more in automation
David Arnoux
November 12, 2024
The writing is on the wall. And it has nothing to do with big claims about AGI like these:
A few weekends ago I built a marketplace, from scratch in a matter of hours. (I used Bolt and Replit alternatively). Bare in mind my dev skills are pretty low. But with a simple conversational interface, many back and forths, I was able to build a marketplace, with a database, all the features I could dream of… and deployed it.
The implications are huge. But some of us still need to wake up, we’re entering we’ve entered a seismic shift in the tech landscape, one that is still to be written
Now what does this mean for us humans?
Ethan Mollick’s (who is a MUST-FOLLOW on Linkedin by the way) book Co-intelligence argues AI isn't meant to replace us but work alongside us. AI has it’s superpowers and we've got ours, and when you put them together... that's where the magic happens. Not AI vs humans, but AI and humans, problem-solving together. We also call this Human-In-The-Loop.
AI can automate the repetitive and mundane, freeing us to focus on creative, strategic, and emotional tasks—the uniquely human work. Instead of seeing it as a competitor, we should view it as an amplifier of our own strengths, allowing us to do what we do best while it handles the rest.
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You see similar statements here and there…for example in this great Gallup Study on the future of AI in Europe. There is a lot of focus on Augmentation rather than Automation. Augmenting humans rather than replacing them.
Tools like these allow you to see what your job exposure to automation is. And most tasks/roles levitate around the 20-30%
But how optimistic, fixed-mindset is this?
I’d argue these numbers are stuck in the present and not projecting themselves in the future enough.
Because what does the company or the department of the future look like?
1000 people?
100?
10?
1?
0? (see: fully autonomous venture)
I’d argue not that many. Especially as humanS become “AI puppet masters”. Jacco van der Kooij has a pretty strong view on this. Adapting to tech requires tech, fight fire with fire. Humans can even become an impediment. As he puts it
“You can’t achieve exponential growth with a linear, people-based approach. The key to exponential growth lies in leveraging exponential systems powered by AI.”
Long story short…
and whereas across humans knowledge dissipates over time…with AI it compounds.
What are the moats in this new economy?
At the company level:
Capital
Scale
Data
Audience/Community
Brand
and more 👇
At the personal level I’d argue:
AI Skills (Structured Learning OR Tinker tinker tinker!)
Good “Taste”
A personal brand
Crazy adaptability/Growth mindset
A job outside of tech 🌱 (for now)
Some food for thought here:
What am I missing?
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