AI won’t replace humans

Explores how AI automates repetitive tasks, enabling humans to focus on creative, strategic, and empathetic work, and challenges fears about AI replacing human jobs.

Published on 23 May 2025

Written by Martin Hinshelwood

1 minute read

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AI won’t replace humans. It will replace the work that should never have needed a human.

Copy-pasting data between systems. Processing approval flows. Writing the same report for the fifth time. That’s not where human intelligence belongs.

The companies that thrive will be the ones that let AI take the mechanical and elevate people to do the work only people can do—creative, strategic, empathetic, human work.

If your organisation is panicking about AI taking jobs, maybe the real issue is that it built its success on dehumanising work.

AI is a mirror. What does it reveal about your system of work?

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