Yes, AI will transform the workplace. But if you’re only looking at its current capabilities and how it’s used today, it’s easy to feel skeptical, as the impact of today’s AI can feel incremental at best and underwhelming at worst. That’s one reason I recently laid out a 7-stage roadmap for how human-AI collaboration will evolve in the workplace. Transformation happens in phases, not all at once. Each stage builds on the one before it, and you can’t skip steps.
But even with a step-by-step roadmap to the future, people still get stuck thinking about AI in the context of automating today’s tasks within today’s organizational structures. If this is you, if you believe the future of work is just us humans doing the same things while AI handles the repetitive bits, then I understand why you’d be skeptical that AI will be transformational!