The AI revolution will take so much longer than anyone is predicting. Personally, as an X-obsessed modern tech CEO, I'm completely AI-pilled. If you're reading this, you probably are too. But the vast majority of the workforce still barely uses AI to do anything more than writing long strategy documents that nobody reads or to look up information on their competitors. Furthermore, even if an individual wants to start running a multi-agent marketing funnel or overhaul their company's technology stack with AI-native software, they can't because of corporate IT rules.
While the pace of adoption has been fast, we're still only 1 percent into our adoption curve. Companies are attempting to adopt as quickly as possible, and yet they will still take decades to overhaul their operations. Keep in mind that email was invented in 1971, but the government, insurance companies, and banks still use snail mail regularly.
I doubt AI will become universal in every single application immediately. The knowledge gap is much higher than people realize because AI adoption requires a full system overhaul. To fully take advantage, companies have to re-engineer entire workflows, modify the chain of command, and shift the work culture of an organization. It will take years of education to get to the point of proficiency.
Even though AI will eventually completely change the way we work, it will not change everyday life as much as we think. We'll all continue to work hard, have thriving careers, and experience the economic and job growth we've seen over the last few hundred years. It will enable us to cure diseases, have personal robots in every home, and enjoy limitless clean energy. But we're nowhere close to achieving these results—in fact, we've got a long way to go.
