The end of the expert with Ian Beacraft

We’ve spent decades valuing our input into work: the toil; the hours; the expertise. In the future, the focus will be on results: outputs not these inputs. With AI disrupting the process of work, the skill will lie in knowing how to delegate and orchestrate work. Today’s technical specialist will be replaced by the creative generalist who brings imagination to the use these new resources.

In this episode, Marissa is joined by founder of innovation consultancy Signal and Cipher Ian Beacraft to discuss a world where creativity replaces toil and technical know-how as the currency of work.

• By 2050 AI will be as pervasive and unexceptional as 'digital' is today. What will happen to the technical expert in a world where knowledge is commodified?
• Are ‘creative generalists’ born or made? How do we skill ourselves for this future?
• Will we all have to become AI natives to run businesses top-down, or will changing to run them bottom-up allow us to learn from a new, AI-native generation?
• With businesses no longer needing huge infrastructure or large workforces to scale fast, what will happen to the number, role and value of companies themselves?