💡 AI, GPS, and the Disappearance of Traditional Role

AI takes me back to my roots 15 years ago.
At the time, a big part of my role was acting as a financial business/process owner in the multinational corporations — bridging functional needs with IT infrastructure, translating business requirements, aligning systems, coordinating across large MOA teams.
Today, AI can handle much of that work autonomously.
What once required entire teams can now be managed by one or two people focused mainly on oversight and correction. In practice, this means a significant share of traditional MOA roles will simply no longer exist.

The parallel with GPS is striking.
Just like a navigation app, AI can offer multiple routes to reach your destination — your goal. But it doesn’t show you all the possibilities.
How many times has GPS led you down a convoluted route when a simpler, more intuitive path was sitting right there on the map?

AI works the same way.
It optimizes. It suggests. It accelerates.
But it doesn’t decide what truly matters.
That’s why AI isn’t really about how to do things — it’s about you.
Your goal.
Your context.
Your timing.
In the AI era, the most valuable intellectual asset isn’t the process map, the commercial playbook, or any deliverable that can be quickly commoditized and rewritten.
The real differentiator is far less replicable:
Your willingness to think independently.
To question the obvious route.
To bring genuine intent to what you do.
Technology will keep evolving.
The human edge will remain intentional thinking.

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