Knowledge Work Is Dying—Here’s What Comes Next

Joe Hudson works with the executives building AGI at OpenAI—many of whom believe AI will soon do the jobs they're currently doing. But they're not panicking. They're developing entirely different skills that will remain valuable, with Joe’s help. I've known him personally for a few years, and not only is he a sharp thinker, he's also remarkably grounded—someone who faces the uncertainty of the future not with anxiety but with genuine curiosity, compassion, and practical wisdom. In this piece, Joe offers something rare and valuable: a clear-eyed, deeply human path forward that will leave you feeling more capable, not less. (Stay tuned for his upcoming appearance on our podcast AI & I.)—Dan Shipper

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Before AI, knowledge set you apart. Knowing more meant earning more. Accumulating skills, developing expertise, and mastering frameworks got you ahead.

Today, as models swallow entire fields overnight, wisdom—skills like emotional clarity, discernment, and connection—is what keeps you indispensable. As CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella made it a priority to instill these capacities throughout his organization. In eight years, the company’s market capitalization climbed from $300 billion to $3 trillion.

I work with the people building artificial general intelligence itself—including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the company’s cofounder Wojciech Zaremba, its research and compute teams, and senior executives at Google’s DeepMind, Anthropic, and Apple—and they’re racing to master the same three inner skills. Many of them seek me out because they understand a sobering truth: They are building the technology that will make their own skills obsolete. In the not-too-distant future, AGI will be able to do what they can do today—faster, cheaper, and at scale.

My job is to help these leaders develop their abilities in areas that AI cannot replicate. I help them lead not from fear, ego, or having something to prove, but from a deeper place of wisdom.

Here’s why—and how you can, too.

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Knowledge work is dying—welcome to the age of wisdom work

AI models don’t sleep or burn out; they can absorb entire fields of study in days. One highly trained model will soon be able to outperform an expert in physics, law, and engineering—simultaneously, at any hour. Facts, skills, and expertise will be increasingly commoditized, and even the smartest of us will be replaceable.

It’s easy to overlook how radical that is. Our entire society is built around knowledge as a scarce, precious resource. School systems, standardized tests, Ivy League pipelines, job interviews, LinkedIn profiles are all mechanisms to measure, prove, and reward how much you know. Hence the rise of over 1 billion knowledge workers: professionals valued for what they knew and could do, like lawyers, engineers, consultants, and programmers.

Now, imagine a world where all that is irrelevant, akin to the ability to build a fire today—occasionally useful, but mostly unnecessary in a world with light bulbs, central heating, and stove tops.

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