Stop Discarding Your Most Powerful Intelligence
Why Companies Keep the GPUs but Discard the People
Imagine a company announcing they’re throwing away thousands of GPUs. We’d think that’s insane—a massive waste of resources and investment.
Now imagine they announce layoffs of thousands of employees. That’s just Tuesday.
We’ve got this all wrong.
The Intelligence We’re Throwing Away
Businesses are racing to adopt AI while having no clue how to utilize the intelligence they already possess—the Organic Intelligence of their people.
Here’s the reality check we need:
Every breakthrough that brought us here—electricity, flight, the internet, AI itself—happened because of human intelligence, not despite it.
Yet when companies “embrace AI,” they discard their most sustainable, creative, and irreplaceable asset: people.
The Real Cost
Replacing an employee costs roughly 200% of their salary in recruitment, onboarding, lost productivity, and institutional knowledge.
You know what companies don’t throw away? GPUs.
The math isn’t mathing.
AI Isn’t the Villain—Poor Leadership Is
Every failure gets blamed on AI now:
“College grads can’t find jobs—it’s AI.”
No. It’s because companies stopped investing in entry-level training programs. And by the time academia updates their curriculum to match industry needs, those needs have already shifted.
“We’re restructuring because of AI.”
Translation: Leadership doesn’t understand AI, so they’re making reactive decisions and using it as cover.
AI isn’t making these choices. People are. And they’re hiding behind technology to avoid accountability.
What Smart Leaders Do Instead
If you actually understand AI’s future, you:
Educate deeply. Not “how to prompt ChatGPT”—but how AI processes information, its limitations, its failure modes, and security implications.
Transform roles, don’t eliminate them. AI handles routine work. Humans verify accuracy, provide judgment, and ensure proper access controls. Someone has to know when the agent is confidently wrong.
Invest in both intelligences. Your people get better with experience. AI gets better with more data. The winning strategy isn’t choosing between them—it’s choosing to develop both.
The Truth You Need to Hear
Don’t fear AI. It has nothing on you.
Your brain is a marvel of biological evolution—outperforming supercomputers in creativity, reasoning, and genuine understanding.
Yes, AI agents are getting remarkably good at reasoning, creating images, and generating videos. They’re powerful tools. But here’s the key: AI is like a calculator that didn’t replace mathematicians—it freed them to solve bigger problems.
AI amplifies ambition. It doesn’t create it.
When President Kennedy declared we’d put a man on the moon within a decade, AI didn’t exist—at least not to its current extent. But human desire, attention to detail, and relentless focus made the impossible real. That same principle applies today. AI agents can help us achieve our goals faster, but they need your vision to know where to go, your judgment to verify they’re on track, and your creativity to push boundaries no model has seen before.
The question isn’t whether AI can do the work. It’s whether you have the ambition to direct it toward something that matters.
We don’t need less human intelligence. We need to harness our Organic Intelligence differently.
The companies that win won’t be the ones that replace people with AI. They’ll be the ones that empower people with AI.
This culture of disposable workers will cost us trillions—in talent retention, innovation, and the institutional knowledge we can’t get back once it’s gone.
Stay curious, experiment, and let’s build the future together! 🧠🔍
P.S. AI didn’t help us survive to where we are today. We did. Don’t forget that.
Insightful and encouraging, as always!