“A child born today will never be smarted than artificial intelligence (AI).” – Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI and ChatGPT

A child born today will grow up surrounded by AI powered experiences. In fact, by the time a child born today reaches adulthood, he will likely take the existence of AI for granted; as normal and expected. Take for example electricity and plumbing, vehicles and aircraft, medicine and psychiatry (as opposed to witchcraft). The age of enlightenment and the industrial revolution changed the human experience and human expectations.

Time morphed magnificent inventions and discoveries into basic necessities and human rights. AI, too, will make discoveries and change how we do things, but at a faster speed of technological evolution than humanity has ever experienced before. The rate of change in 10 years will be equivalent to the rate of change of 100 years in the past. This means that the learning curve will be sharp and people will be left behind.

By the time a middle school student today graduates college, half of college-educated white collar skilled jobs may be replaced by AI software and blue collar skilled jobs will be replaced or reduced by AI robots.

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Knowledge will boast ego more than it creates a competitive advantage. That is, with all the world’s knowledge about any given topic accurately and immediately available and accessible to anyone at anytime, the need for subject matter experts in some fields will greatly decline. Objective fields such as finance, mathematics, history, language, some sciences, contract law, and others are susceptible to delution by AI replacement faster than subjective fields requiring human discernment, emotion, and context. Although, the creative class—a subjective field—is an exception.

So, the question is: How are you preparing your child for an AI future and how do today’s adults maintain relevance as the nature of work and human interaction evolves?

I attended a luncheon and networking event in Medellin yesterday with AI developers and entrepreneurs from around the world. What many employees may not know is that CEOs are already thinking about what aspects of their business can be made more efficient by AI. In other words, who can be replaced by AI.

In 2018, I made predictions on how the music industry would evolve in the 2020’s. Nearly every prediction that I made has come to fruition, including the rise of AI in the music industry.

Have you begun thinking about your industry?

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