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The augmentation gap

Ben Schmidt, PhD
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Recovering brain scientist turned AI builder, writing on Human Acceleration: aiming AI at people to make them faster than the change coming for them, not to replace them.
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The augmentation gap is the fork every AI tool puts in front of you: does this make your people easier to replace, or harder?

I’ve spent twelve years on the harder-to-replace side of that gap, and I’ll keep arguing for it. Automation that quietly hollows out capability looks like a win on the quarter and a liability on the decade. The tools worth buying are the ones that leave your people more capable than they found them.


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