Is automation going to unlock our business humanity?
It's very possible.
Google: "AI taking all of our jobs"...
And it won't take long for you to feel pessimistic.
Workers are feeling scared.
Robots are coming.
And our world will soon look like a scary Quentin Tarantino movie.
Do you buy the narrative?
Personally, I don't.
For starters, we need to be honest about the state of work pre-AI:
Many people totally burned out
Most people not fulfilled at work
Crazy high employee churn
High customer dissatisfaction
Everyone feeling pressure to work 24/7
Teams viciously fighting "return to office" mandates
I could obviously go on.
My point is...
It's not like everything was "so amazing" before AI. Collectively, we were already struggling.
Against this backdrop: enter AI.
The greatest writing, editing, coding, research, drawing, Excel assistant ever created...
Available to all of us for only $20/month.
Where some see a huge threat...
I see a huge opportunity.
Artificial intelligence is removing the parts of our jobs that we hate (aka "grunt work")...
And freeing us up to do more strategic work, that in many cases...we like better!
Salespeople can spend more time actually talking to prospects, and less time researching them.
Controllers can spend less time tallying numbers and more time analyzing them.
HR can spend less time vetting resumes, and more time interviewing candidates.
The list goes on...
My point is: the removal of grunt work may be the greatest "humanizer" to work we've ever seen.
And it couldn't be coming at a better time.
Let's stay optimistic. I don't think it's going to be so bad.