You're not lower-value human capital
CEOs are getting it wrong
Imagine slogging hours for your company, just for your CEO (like Standard Chartered) to lay you off because of AI.
All that hard work that you put in, just to be labelled as ‘lower-value human capital’, because a machine can do your work faster, better, and cheaper than you.
So of course you’ll hate AI when it takes everything from you.
But this is the harsh reality we’re in right now, especially when we’ve been doing things that AI can now do better than humans:
Capitalism is all about value flow
Love it or hate it, the core of capitalism was always about value.
And in the business sense, how you are making or saving money for that business.
The more heavily involved your role is in this, the more perceived value you have to your employer.
Most of our jobs are not directly tied to revenue or expenditure, so it’s far easier for us to be laid off.
We’re the ‘context carriers’, the ones in the middle that coordinate between the product and marketing.
Or the only 2 core roles of a company that won’t be easily replaced by AI.
With businesses and companies becoming leaner than ever with AI, there are fewer seats left for these context carriers.
Instead of fighting this uphill battle, a shift in perspective is much needed:
Become valuable in areas that AI can’t replace yet
If you’ve been spending time doing boring, soul-sucking tasks in your job, it’s time for a change.
These tasks were meant to be executed by machines with a clear workflow, not humans with a brain.
So instead of being the one who executes these mindless tasks, become the one who directs AI on how to complete them.
You give it clear instructions because you know:
• The outcome of the workflow, and what defines a good output
• The exact steps to execute the workflow
• What bottlenecks are present that prevent you from achieving the output
You build a clear SOP that lets AI execute it, as if you’ve done it yourself.
And because you’ve done the same task day in and day out, you’re the subject matter expert at it.
You are high-value human capital
So who cares if your employer thinks you’re low-value human capital?
They see the shiny features that AI brings, and are quick to believe that it can solve all the bottlenecks for them.
But if they don’t know the workflow, they can’t get AI to give them the outputs they need.
They still need someone to guide and orchestrate the AI, and that is your edge.
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