If AI Replaces Us, What Do We Become?

I believe 95% of all jobs are going to disappear.

Not in 20 years. Probably, in 5.

We're witnessing the dissolution of an entire paradigm of human purpose—and that's precisely what we need.

Piece by piece, people are understanding how insanely capable agentic AI already is today.

Most traditional jobs will disappear. Not in decades, but years. And we're still clinging to productivity metrics and performance reviews like they're lifelines.

Here's how I feel: We've been handed the keys to unimaginable creative potential, yet we're using them to unlock the same old doors.

Right now, AI feels threatening because it mirrors back a painful truth—we've reduced ourselves to task-rabbits, productivity units, human resources. Of course it can replace that. That was never our true value anyway.

I don't think there's going to be a monetary economy based on people's productivity in 5 years.

What makes us irreplaceably human?

Not our ability to process data. Not our efficiency at repetitive tasks. But our capacity to face the unknown with courage, to create meaning from chaos, to feel into what wants to emerge through us.

Every technological breakthrough arrives with a corresponding leap in consciousness. This one is asking us to transcend the industrial mindset that humans exist to produce economic value by executing repeatable processes.

What if this disruption is exactly what we need to remember that we are participants of a living ecology, that we are the very agents allowing natural emergence of radical creative innovation to happen?

The organizations that will thrive won't be those replacing humans with AI fastest. They'll be those recognizing that human creativity, intuition, and capacity for breakthrough thinking is still utterly underleveraged today.

Yes, we need new economic models. Universal income might be unavoidable in a post-ai world. It's an acknowledgment that productivity is not our big challenge anymore. Creative evolution is.

But more importantly, we need leaders courageous enough to see this transition not as a threat to manage, but as humanity's next developmental stage.

The only organizations that will be needed are those that can capture the innovative and creative potential of their workforce. The ones that have living relational capital instead of human resources.

Everything else can and will be automated. More from Lennart on Linkedin.