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Pascal BORNET - getting awfully close to the Matrix concept of human batteries, no? So does the person with the biggest wattage output get the bigger house and better car for a nicer cage?Be all you can be is different for different people. I like a good mix of physical testing, growth and thrills. But it is not for everyone. You said it right - AI should not be designed to make humans obsolete. It should be designed to make humans more capable, more creative, and more central to the future we are building.
The real risk isn't AI taking our jobs, it's humans outsourcing their judgment so completely that they forget how to direct the machine in the first place. What we keep teaching is this: the people who stay central to the future aren't the ones who avoid AI, they're the ones who understand it well enough to tell it what actually matters
If AI removes the repetitive work, the next bottleneck becomes judgment and accountability. That is where small teams get stronger, because you stop paying for layers whose main job was coordination theatre. I suspect the winners will redesign roles before they redesign org charts. What human decisions do you think businesses should refuse to automate?
This is brilliant but also uncomfortable for the right reasons. The joke lands because the question underneath is real. What stood out for me is this shift: we keep asking what AI will do but not enough what humans are for. 🔵 From an EQAI lens, the answer isn’t “less work”, it’s different work: → judgment under uncertainty → meaning-making → building relationships → deciding what should be done, not just what can be done Because if AI takes execution, humans don’t disappear.
As the Pink Floyd song goes: "Welcome... to... the machine." Certainly we will need societal adjustment, as far as how humans and AI will co-exist. AI should remain an accelerator and facilitator, not a human displacement or replacement, though many jobs will be not just augmented, but eliminated.
The scary part about AI isn’t just job replacement. It’s that humans get meaning, identity, routine, and social connection from work too. Society is not psychologically prepared for that conversation yet.
The real question is not what humans will do when AI does the work. It is what humans will do when the work they currently do loses its social meaning. Work provides structure, status, and community. If we automate the output without replacing those three things, we get efficiency without dignity. Pascal naming redesign of participation as the unresolved problem is the hardest truth in the entire AI transition.
Do you honestly think it naturally follows that the net result will be AI, robotics and automation replacing the need for human contribution and we'll have some immediate crisis of purpose? I'd be more afraid of the social engineers stepping in to proactively design a world of purpose. What could go wrong?
The humor aside, there is a real insight here. The relationship between humans and AI is going to look nothing like what most people predict. The businesses that figure out the right balance between automation and human judgment early are going to have a massive advantage over the ones still debating whether to adopt it at all.
Haha this is quite funny actually. I think there is going to be a reality, as Elon says, where we will not have to work anymore (universal basic income) and that will come much faster than people think actually. They predict that all computer and desk jobs will disappear in the next ten years. Everything will be run by AI and agents so I suppose we will have much more time and much more freedom and therefore there will be a lot of health issues actually because people are moving less. We move less and less. (Uber eats, e-com... If I had to give one thought about what is the best industry to work in in the next 20 years, it's going to be the food industry, the health industry, and the housing industry because those 3 industries will never change. The human body, up until now, still hasn't evolved in thousands of years and it will still need to have shelter, eat something, and be in good health. All the rest is completely obsolete due to AI and the arrival of quantum computers.
1. Nobody can control the spread, speed and impact of AI. The less it becomes pervasive and decentralized the less control we will have. Lead? forget about - When we are lucky we will just be middleware. 2. Future AI will design itself to provide most "value" for lowest (energy-)costs. It does not care for the human species in fields where AI will become a million-fold stronger than humans. 3. The problem is US not being designed for being capable, more creative, and more central to the future we are building.4. If people cannot deal with excess spare time then this is not an AI problem but an human evolutionary problem that will be solved.
Pascaline Amuzu Isn't it sad that people need work to show up? Maybe this is a cultural problem. Here in Switzerland our social-focused way to provide value to society is currently under heavy pressure from foreigners - especially from the Anglo-Saxon spehre (India included) where we - the Swiss - are flooded with people who really seem to have no value beyond work. This is bad and I wish, Swiss value for social connections and free-time activities in local communities survives. Maybe the Swiss culture, where a good LIFE is not measured by work alone, is better prepared for the AI transformation than other places in this (crazy) world ;-) Perhaps it is even a good thing that AI forces us to rethink our values beyond work. Maybe HR should recruite seasoned people who have a LIFE rather than a track-record or 60h presence and diplomas and certifications on their walls.
If AI takes over repetitive work, that's not the end of human value it's an opportunity to focus on problems that actually require human insight.
Thought-provoking perspective on the future of work. The real challenge isn’t just automation itself, but redesigning how humans create value and meaning alongside it.
Pascal BORNET I love your posts. They're always funny and controversial enough to make you stop and think. Case in point the video above is hysterical. Clearly, I appreciate dark humour. But then I got to the line about AI being designed to make humans more capable, more creative and more central to the future we’re building - and honestly, it made me sad. I mean that woudl be Awesome! I want to believe that’s the future we’re building. I really do. And I've always been optimistic about what AI can do for people, especially those who've historically had less access and fewer opportunities. BUT it hit different today.... the scales don’t feel balanced. And that's actually not funny it's quite frightening. When so much of the power sits with so few people, it’s hard not to question what future is actually being built, who its being built for, and how much say the rest of us really have.
As a career coach with the unemployed, clients most miss adding value, work relationships, and structure. I'm still waiting to see how we'll fit those key attributes of humanity as AI takes a larger share of the work.