We talk about AI as if it arrived from a different universe and operates by different rules. As if the moment intelligence became artificial, the laws that govern everything else somehow stopped applying. They didn’t! AI exists in the same physical reality humans do....

AI is hungry, and may be headed for your role. First it is eating the “breakfast” jobs (Scheduling, routing, basic coordination, etc.); the stuff that used to consume whole roles. Then it moves to lunch. The repeatable, rules-based work dressed up as “knowledge work,”...

AI is getting frighteningly good at cognition (language, knowledge work, code). It is still clumsy at embodiment (the physical world), but getting better fast. It remains inconsistent at the agency (in autonomously turning goals into outcomes). However, it is very...