Changing the AI narrative from liberation to acceleration

The most frequent story told about AI is that it will free us up from mundane tasks and allow us to focus on more impactful, strategic work. But the liberation part of that story might be misleading. In this post, I argue that AI's true effect is to accelerate the entire competitive landscape, increasing the pace of work for everyone. In this new, sped-up world, companies that replace human workers with AI for short-term gains, assuming that the pace of change is static, may find themselves falling behind in the long term.