AI as input multiplies; AI as output replaces
When an AI system's output is a building block of your work, you become more productive. When it is the same as your output, you become redundant.
With the state of AI as I use it, a simple distinction keeps returning. If the output of an AI system is an input or building block of an individual’s or organisation’s output, it makes them more efficient and productive. If the output of the AI system is the same as the output of the individual or organisation, it makes them redundant.
That is not a moral claim about tools. It is a placement claim. Where you sit in the chain relative to the model decides whether the tool multiplies you or substitutes for you. The useful question for a person, a team, or a region is therefore not only “do we use AI,” but “are we still the ones who own the final work that matters?”
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