The quiet identity crisis that comes with AI


For most of professional history, the senior leader's value was rooted in things AI is now beginning to do. Pattern recognition across complex inputs. Strategic synthesis. Sharp written analysis. Quick framing of difficult questions. These were not random capabilities; they were the capabilities that earned the seniority. They are also, right now, the capabilities that are being replicated, imperfectly but plausibly, by tools that did not exist three years ago. Most senior leaders have...