In a survey of 10, 000 senior leaders, 97% said strategy is the most important thing for their organization’s success. But 96% said they lack the time and the right tools to engage in strategy development within their organizations effectively.
— Harvard Business Review
The narratives put forth by the big tech AI sellers rest on the false premise that knowledge work is primarily information processing, which would mean that knowledge-based workers are just commodities and could be easily replaced by faster, more efficient information processing technology. Big tech hype has convinced many corporations that replacing humans with AI is easy and that decreased human resource costs are a guarantee of higher profits, which obviously is not true.
Recently, Fortune magazine reported that Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO Matt German said that replacing young employees with artificial intelligence was “one of the dumbest ideas” he’d heard, and that it’s bad for business.
Speaking on the long-term impact of AI on workplaces, German said companies that cut early-career talent risk losing institutional knowledge, creativity, and future leadership pipelines, ultimately weakening themselves over time. Highlighting that while AI can boost productivity, it should be used to augment human talent, not eliminate it, especially at the junior level, where learning and experimentation are central to fueling innovation and growth for the enterprise over time.
However, the AI-hype narratives are telling us that, as AI becomes “more capable,” the economic value of the knowledge worker will approach zero. But if you truly understand knowledge and how the universe works in general, you’d know that knowledge work is fundamentally the act of interpreting and contextualizing information through experiences. That must then be properly applied to generate insight for productive and prioritized knowledge.
An eye-catching MIT study published in June of 2025, titled “Your Brain on ChatGPT,” suggests that the overuse of ChatGPT leads to the “accumulation of cognitive debt,” and further suggests that cognitive activity is significantly scaled down with overreliance on external AI tools. In other words, ChatGPT makes you stupider!
Therefore, as good as ChatGPT presents, its practicality and utility in the real world make it anything but sustainable and beneficial for humanity.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing our human existence, but to what degree is far from clear. And history has taught us that it will largely depend on the choices we make about the technology we choose to use, which will determine the adoption of that tech. And it will ultimately be the same with AI, regardless of the hype. It’s not any different this time.
How 6ai Increases Human Value
What is 6ai: an authentically human-centric solution that does not seek to make AI competitive, surpass, or replace human intelligence. It takes an augmenting approach instead, powered by a proprietary six-step (6ai) applied intelligence process-IP, which utilizes generative AI as an amplifying tool that is used practically, purposefully, and responsibly to enhance human intelligence capacity and capabilities. Integrating and leveraging customized AI-agents within an Empathetic Socratic Conversational Method (ESCM), underscoring a core architecture built to scale!
The first Industrial Revolution, for example, was a period of industrial disruption, with the impacts of the “sudden” introduction of automation technology becoming transformative for society. Many at the time felt that technology would destroy workers’ livelihoods and that humans would be replaced by machines. However, as then, a technology’s success in society still comes down to people deciding to use it or not — adoption.
Unfortunately, we are living through a dishonest depiction of AI technology and its utility. The hype doesn’t match the reality on the ground.
Nevertheless, as more people choose to be intellectually lazy and fall for the AI hype, they become increasingly dependent on LLM products like ChatGPT. They surrender their human agency, diminish their value in the marketplace, and, by their own doing, become replaceable in the workplace.
This phenomenon, according to best-selling author and historian Yuval Noah Harari, will result in the future rise of a “Great Useless Class.” A future he describes in which those who overuse AI unwittingly render themselves economically irrelevant and unemployable, Harari asks: “What is society going to do with all these superfluous workers?”
However, as always, those who can think for themselves and maintain their agency instead of outsourcing it to the likes of ChatGPT and the other usual LLM suspects will increase their learning, knowledge capacity and capabilities and value in the new economy.
This group will be the new, innovative and creative class and will choose the specific technology to partner with that will augment their intelligence and apply their authentic knowledge to value-creating tasks that increase their value in the marketplace. They will become the irreplaceable content creators and will earn the lion’s share of the wealth in society.
Accordingly, as AI automates computation, quality human judgment will become even more valuable, not less. The individuals and enterprises alike that understand this will shift and build their competitive moats by applying human-centric strategy software as an augmenting partner in building transformative organizations.
Therefore, what we are experiencing now are the very early stages of “intelligent systems” based technologies, the evolution of advanced automation technology. An applied intelligence economy, where success will be dictated by how well we can apply our knowledge and choose the right augmenting software partners to advance our competitive growth by formulating strategies to solve complex problems themselves!
6ai is a serious strategy tool for leaders!
6ai combines the integration of human intelligence and reasoning with computational processing and analytics for critical thinking and informed decisioning. Empowering anyone to design anything from high-level, multi-billion-dollar corporate strategies to personal growth strategies at a fraction of the cost of using traditional consultants, advisors, or specialists.
“Businesses are better off internalizing their strategy process, because consultants are basically telling you what you already know. And much of the information we can find ourselves.”
— Forbes
6ai’s applied Intelligence software integrates the two layers and manages the strategy development and risk management process. 6ai fills the gap between the value functions available from big data and artificial intelligence, and the executive decisioning capacity and capabilities of leaders. So, they can make decisions with confidence.
6ai handles the computational layer. Humans own the interpretive layer. Utilizing the combined power of the human mind and the computational ability of machines allows anyone, without any special skills or training, to make intelligent business decisions and develop strategies through a disciplined, formal logic-based framework.
6ai’s applied Intelligence software integrates the two layers and manages the strategy development and risk management process. 6ai fills the gap between the value functions available from big data and artificial intelligence, and the executive decisioning capacity and capabilities of leaders, to make decisions with confidence.
The Road Ahead
We are not facing a future where the value of humans in the workplace is drastically diminished or replaced altogether, relative to knowledge work. Instead, we are facing a future about making decisions that can serve our interests best! The future of AI is not about following the crowd because the crowd is never right; it’s about bringing thinking back and maintaining agency over yourself, finding the right tools to execute on knowledge and opportunities that will allow you to thrive in the 21st century. In the end, it still comes down to what you choose to do, and what and how you choose to do it that distinguishes you from the ignorant herd!
6ai has been designed for leaders who understand the intrinsic value of pragmatism and utilizing technology to partner with and augment their intelligence and competitive advantage in the universe.