If you ask the wrong question, then the answer is usually irrelevant…or dangerous. And if you’re asking the question, “Can AI replace me,” you’re most definitely in the dangerous category.
Everyone is asking whether AI will replace entrepreneurs. Wrong question. The better question is:
Why the fuck are you building a business so generic that a machine can duplicate it in the first place?
If you have to ask if AI can replace you…you don’t have a real business.
Why? Allow me to take a 25,000-word possible Ph.D. thesis and reduce it to six…
AI replaces commodity. AI amplifies originality.
If the only reason customers buy from you is price, convenience, or speed…you’re not building a brand. You’re in a race to the bottom against software that never sleeps.
Even worse: if you’re running a commodity business – any type of commodity business – all anyone has to do to steal your customers is offer the same product or service for a penny less or a second faster.
Any business based on a commodity isn’t a real business; it’s a temporary source of income, waiting to implode. In cases like these, safe is the new risky.
The future belongs to entrepreneurs who can:
My hot take: If AI can replace you, you should be replaced. And you should be the person utilizing AI to replace you.
This will free up your time to work in your mad genius mode, your rainmaker mode, or your “not working, living my best life while my self-managing business is throwing off cash” mode.
Too many of the hot takes about AI today are fear porn or techno worship. Don’t fall prey to either. Be a critical thinker: Think about AI the way you think about electricity, fire, and nuclear. They all pose danger, but when they’re harnessed, can enhance your life in almost limitless ways.
Today’s a good day to:
Peace,
- RG
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