Strongholds and walls are being broken. The prestige associated with all sorts of certifications, accredations, and reputations are being eviscerated. What does it mean to be human, if intelligence is no longer a subset of the psyche? Even proponents of emotional intelligence would agree, that subject to a Turing test, AI today is far more emotionally intelligent than the average meat-brain.
All involved in building products, have been reduced to a mere “human touch”. Thus, arguably, the value of any enterprise is the summation and multiplier of the quality of the “human touch” - making it a high risk game. Just like a game of football, we all bring a different kind of touch to the table. Some strong. Some tall. Some silky. Some electric. And some, poor.
AI is, slowly but surely, chipping away at most of what we believe our unique “human” touch is. Those in consultancy services know this (or, will know it, in time) better than most.
Does AI augment and multiply human intuition, or is it the other way around? The case for the latter is evident from the trend that businesses (ambitious ones) are more serious about hiring people who “plug-in-well” with AI, than looking for AI that works well with their people. This is fundamentally different from the impact of IT innovations over the last two decades - where emphasis was on digitization and skill building.
Digitization is a fact. Skills are a prompt away, not some 3 week training module away. The big shots aren’t doing Udemy or LinkedIn learning courses anymore (God, help traditional universities!). They are just plugged into the global AI and BUILDING.
AI is the ‘great-leveller’. Intelligence, exalted by status-driven societies, is now a mere property of physics - as obvious as gravity.