Snapshot · The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Godin argues the fundamental AI choice every worker faces is whether AI becomes their boss (reducing them to a gig worker for tasks AI can't yet do) or their tool (amplifying uniquely human skills like trust and network-building).
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Godin's AI credentials are unusual for a humanist thinker: he took Doug Lenat's foundational AI PhD course at Stanford in 1983 and has been writing about the technology for decades. His two core claims are stark. First, this is the biggest change in the world since electricity — and companies that waited for electricity to go away in 1890 did not survive. [1] — Seth Godin "There are very few jobs left where Godin can't find an AI to do the work faster and cheaper. The future belongs to people whose work can't …" 1:36:20 Second, the choice facing every worker is binary: either AI becomes your boss, using you as a gig worker for the tasks it can't yet do, or you use AI as a tool to amplify what machines cannot replicate. What machines cannot replicate, Godin argues, is any job whose rules cannot be written down — the curator's taste, the connector's trust network, the doctor who spends more time with patients because AI handles the paperwork. Bartlett's fiancée's breathwork retreat business is the perfect example: what women get from it is mostly each other. AI will never replace that.
Godin frames AI as a civilisation-level shift equivalent to electricity, warning that workers who wait for it to go away will fare as badly as blacksmiths who ignored electrification.
There are very few jobs left where Godin can't find an AI to do the work faster and cheaper. The future belongs to people whose work can't be written down as rules — those who build trust, connect humans, and exercise taste. AI is electricity; the question is what movie theater you're going to build.
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