I saw some of the fallout of the interview with Dario Amodie yesterday and one of his key attention grabbers was:

“unemployment will spike to 20% in the near future”

On my team, we’re driving hard and fast into onboarding agents (more on that soon), and in doing so, we’re building earned wisdom, not just hypothetical or philosophical views.

His statement made me pause—not because it’s dramatic, but because it’s directionally right and emotionally wrong. There’s a better thought exercise to pursue:

AI won’t just disrupt jobs – it will accelerate the creation of their replacement.

The uncertainty around AI is due to the rate of change—and how fast that rate is itself accelerating.

If you consider past paradigm shifts, they all disrupted the existing workforce massively, but slowly:

• The Mainframe
• The PC
• The Internet
• Mobile
• The wheel, fire, electricity…

These changes all transformed industries. They put people out of work—but not forever. No one today is training to be a switchboard operator. People adapted.

The fear with AI, especially Agentic AI, is that those changes are happening in days or weeks instead of years or decades. But this isn’t like past tech waves where new roles emerged slowly.

The technology that is disrupting everything is part of everything.

This means that AI will help design, build, and onboard the future of work in real time. It will empower people to adapt faster, create faster, and solve problems from every angle—not just the top down.

This is the key difference that gives me great hope from working in real time with AI ; the disruptor is the savior all in one, and it brings the power to help those that are disrupted.

AI is driving disruption centrally within organizations, but we are adapting in a decentralized way – AI is enabling those that are getting on board to create systems, training, opportunities, and resiliency for the new future.

This is the first decentralized industrial revolution. Don’t miss it