The AI Revolution is here
And it is the savior
I saw some of the fallout of the interview with Dario Amodie yesterday and one of his key attention grabbers was that “unemployment will spike to 20% in the near future”. On my team we are driving hard and fast into onboarding agents into our team (more on that soon) and in doing so building a lot of earned wisdom versus hypothetical or philosophical views.
His statement was meant to grab attention, but it made me think a bit deeper across the work we are doing. I think there’s a better thought exercise to pursue.
AI won’t just disrupt jobs—it will accelerate the creation of their replacements.
The uncertainty around AI is because of the rate of change - the pace at which that change is accelerating. If you consider the time scales for previous sea change shifts, they all disrupted the existing work force immensely, but they did it very slowly. Industrialization of the Mainframe, the PC, the Internet, Mobile Phones (or even the wheel, fire, automobiles, and electricity) all massively changed industries and the workers within them. All of those changes, or their decedents, are now ubiquitous and fully adopted in the modern world. All of them have driven massive shifts in categories of jobs that “put those that were unable to change out of work”. But we don’t have switchboard operators sitting around in the unemployment line, people have adapted.
The fear with AI, especially Agentic AI, is that those changes are happening in days or weeks instead of years or decades. But this isn’t like past tech waves where new roles emerged slowly. The technology that is disrupting everything is…well…part of everything. This means that AI will help design, build, and onboard the future of work in real time. It will empower people to adapt faster, create faster, and solve problems from every angle—not just the top down. This is the massive difference that gives me great hope from working in real time with AI and we’re earning that wisdom every day; the disruptor is the savior all in one, and it brings the power to help those that are disrupted. While we may be disrupting centrally within organizations today, we are also adapting in a decentralized way - enabling those that are getting on board to create systems, training, opportunities, and resiliency for all of those that are impacted.
This is the first decentralized industrial revolution.