I noticed something very profound last month.
Last month, while participating in The Futurists Summit and meeting AI experts like Brett King, I tried to understand what most experts thought about AI’s future.
There were all sort of talks, all sorts of predictions, and all sorts of reasonings. It was amidst all these only that an insight struck me hard. Two facts that were always around my eyes, yet I never noticed it.
Almost every expert in the world is certain that AGI is coming.
The only disagreement between them is regarding “when”
Or in other words…
“AGI is coming. It’s gonna be disrutptive. And it’s just a matter of time!”
Some experts say that it’ll be here by 2027, some say 2031, and some say 2035. But the important isn’t this…
What’s important is…
AGI Isn’t The Main Threat, Next-Gen AI is
There’s an amazing research report by Daniel Kokotajlo called AI 2027 where he predicts the arrival of AGI by 2027. Some experts believe in it, some don’t.
For example, he predicted the arrival “Agentic AI” in that report which are a real thing today.
And following the trend, he predicted about an “Advanced AI” we’ll see before AGI. Something so good and so capable that it could literally replacing half of human jobs.
He predicted near-perfect AI that’ll not err like GPT 3 or 4. With GPT 5, that too seems like its materializing.
Most human jobs will be lost not at the arrival of AGI but of these advanced AI not that far in the future.
99% Of Corporate Professionals Are Set To Loose
The emergence of new technologies is a natural phenomena. Something that happens time and time again. Think printing press, steam engines, computers, internet and so on.
They never destroy jobs in an economy. They simply change their nature from one type to another.
What really destroys jobs and lives is the ignorance and reluctance of the masses.
The biggest epidemic that will destroy millions of working professionals in the next 5 years is their ignorance and reluctance for AI.
First, most corporate employees know nothing about AI beyond the surface-level knowledge that everybody knows.
They’ve subscribed to the Ostrich Philosophy. Most of them ignored AI wishing it to go away magically. Or they join the anti-AI crowd.
Second, the remaining ones who are usually interested in learning AI and adapting themselves for the future of work a have no clear Roadmap.
No Education For The Non-Technical Crowd
If you go down the internet spiral and search educational materials for non-technical professionals. You’ll hardly find anything tangible.
90% of learning routes look like:
Learn Advanced Mathematics
Learn Deep Learning
Learn Machine Learning
Learn Neural Networks
Learn Generative AI
Learn Building Agentic Ai
99% “AI for executives” courses look like:
What is Ai
AI Ethics
ChatGPT
Copilot
AI In Operations
Just the surface level stuff.
Professionals Have No Time To Loose Anymore
This scarcity of AI education, coupled with the mass-ostrich mentality has kept millions of corporate professionals deprived of the eduction they should’ve gotten 3 years ago.
The best time to learn AI was 2 years ago. The second best time is NOW.
That’s why I decided to take on the task for building a systematic educational system on AI. For corporate professionals who aren’t coding pros.
Before We Discuss The Process
Before we jump into “the process to prepare for the future’ here are a few mindset shifts you’ll need to make.
These mindsets are necessary. Seriously.
Know that…
Those Rejecting AI, Will Lose
AI is already here and has taken millions of entry-level jobs so far. Data-entry? Translation gigs? Junior programmer? All gone.
Globally, 20 million manufacturing jobs could be replaced by automated tools by 2030 (PatentPC)
Most of these automated tools are robots, not strictly AI, but some of these lost jobs will be replaced with new AI tools.
By 2030, 14% of employees will have been forced to change their career because of AI (McKinsey)
That’s 14% of the global workforce, or 375 million workers. It’s little wonder that AI courses that help workers upskill in the new technology are becoming more and more popular.
Wall Street expects to replace 200,000 roles with AI in the next 3 to 5 years (Bloomberg)
A 2025 Bloomberg Intelligence survey of 93 major banks including Citigroup, JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs found that workforces would be cut by an average of 3% by 2030 at the latest. Almost 1 in 4 executives expect reductions of 5 to 10%.
AI can already do many of the senior-level jobs. And it’s just a matter of time before it becomes more reliable and contextually intelligent before it’ll overtake them too.
Eventually, anyone and everyone who does not makes this shift with AI will lose many years of his career. And eventually he will have have to make friendship with it anyway.
Ignore the highly emotional crowd who discredit anyone attempting to leverage AI in their work (especially in creative work). They are set to lose and will switch sides after a few years anyway.
Maintaining a pessimistic mindset will only lead to a destructive conformation bias and nothing else.
AGI Is Certain; Either Today Or Tomorrow
There are 2 ways how AI models improve.
By Increasing compute (Increasing the power of hardware): More GPUs, more power, bigger data centers etc.
By Improving Algorithms From Trainings: Using efficient methods to translate the existing computational power into performance.
AI companies are reaching the upper limits of how much hardware they can invest. From here on, it is the game of software.
For the first time in history, companies are developing AI models to train their AI models. It’s a new curve. A new beginning of exponential acceleration.
Over half of the recent AI progress in the world is due to these smarter software techniques.
This very structure of AI models training the other AI models will lead us to the AGI.
→ GPT 5 + OpenAI researchers will train GPT 6
→ GPT 6 + Open AI researchers will train GPT 7
→ By the time of GPT 8, they might not need the human researchers.
That is what AGI is. An algorithm capable of self-correcting and improving itself infinitely.
With AI, Superpowered.
Without AI, Handicapped.
Taking control of your future is easier than ever.
The general populace today has access to 3 superpowers that none of our preceding generation had — The Internet, Social Media, and AI.
Here are the 3 superpowers:
The Internet: It gave the population access to every bit of knowledge across the globe. It snatched power from school and institutions and handed it over to the public.
The Social Media: It gave people the power to attract audiences from literally anywhere. It snatched power away from publishers, media houses, record labels and gave it to the public.
Artificial Intelligence: Now AI is giving people the ability to build, modify, automate, and execute almost anything. It is snatching the power from few ultra-skilled individuals and giving it to the public.
Without these 3, you’re set to loose.
With these 3, you’re unstoppable.
How To Prepare For The Future Of Work
Educate Yourself Beyond The Surface Level
Most professionals today are stuck at the surface level because they fear AI. They perceive AI as something complex, technical, and incomprehensible.
And while this fact is true. But this isn’t true in most cases.
Is AI too complex? Yes, if you wanna make your own ChatGPT.
But for most professional needs its quite simple and practical.
Is AI too technical? Yes, for those building AI.
Not for professionals who’ll be using polished and simplified AI products anyway.
Is AI incomprehensibe? Yup. But so is microprocessors. Yet we use our smartphones seamlessly.
You don’t need to learn the zeros and ones of AI, you just need to:
Learn the basics
Understand its mechanisms
And master the practical aspects.
There isn’t really much to learn about AI.
Step 1: Understand how everything works. (Takes about 7-15 days)
Step 2: Develop AI skills (1-2 months)
Step 3: Master specific AI tools within your work. (on-the-go)
Become an AI Orchestrator
The future or work is not about Humans. It is neither about AI. It is about Humans + AI.
Humans will have a foundational duty to decide when to leverage AI and when to do things by hand.
And in other cases, when to form a human + AI hybrid to get the most output in least efforts and time.
This ability to produce insane level of productive output by strategic decision-making will save your job in the future.
The lack of this skill will make millions of jobs meaningless.
Become A Specialized Generalist
There are 2 types of people in today’s world.
Scientists & Philosophers.
Technicians & Leaders.
Mechanics & Artists.
Both of the polar sides specialize in their craft. One technically, one creatively. The future of work demands that we mix these two polar ends.
In the words of Dan Koe:
A programmer not paired with a marketer almost always leads to a disappointing number of users.
The peak of human ability lies in being a specialized generalist. Not so specialized that you get replaced in an instant by AI or taken advantage of because you are identified with a credential, but not so generalized that you are effective at effectively nothing.
The future will be of those who are skilled and knowledgeable multiple interconnected areas of their field of work.
Master Intuitive Decision Making
AI can produce an article. But it can’t tell what’s a good content.
It can write code. But it can’t tell how useful it is in grand scheme of things.
The nature of work (at least for few decades) will remain exclusively for-humans. And the best candidates to understand humans are humans.
In the future of work, AI will produce most of the output and humans will do most of the decision-making for which outputs to use and which to throw away.
Those with the best taste for outputs will be valued in the new world of work.
What Now?
If you’re really down to learning AI and take the driving seat of your future. Here are the things you’ll need.
Access to rich AI education.
Which unfortunately is so rare that I had to do it myself. Most of the internet is filled more with AI sensationalism than any deep education.
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Roadmap and guidance for AI skill building (in a corporate environment)
There are many roadmaps to become an expert in AI.
95% of them are for data scientists and programmers.
4.9% for freelancers and entrepreneurs.
Hardly any for corporate professionals.
Inspiration
If you’re a L&D Manager, HR Director, CHRO or even a CEO in the middle east, hire me to train or inspire your employees.
Thank you for reading this letter till here.