AI Should Put Itself Out of a Job

I read a piece on linkedin from an entrepreneur who is encouraging his employees to use AI to put themselves out of a job.

In theory an employee who follows that advice will then have the ability to move on to more interesting jobs and challenges.

Even if his intentions were good, I’m sure what many of his staff were actually hearing was “you should train your replacement before we fire you”. ¹

Now, as a leader, this sentiment is 100% true. As you’re growing your business, you need to slowly let loose of jobs so that you can focus on more important things a business needs. You need to automate, improve and delegate. And for any highly motivated individual this is probably good advice.

But what if we applied this idea to AI itself?

What if the best AI would be the one that instead stealing our agency, helped us become stronger, more collaborative and self-sufficient?