Do you like to be a Resource?

Real Wisdom, Artificial Intelligence · Jun 25, 2026 · 5m

We called people resources because within the industrial-era model, that is structurally what they were. The model required interchangeable, manageable, standardized human units — and it built organizations around that requirement. AI has now removed the requirement. The repeatable cognitive tasks that justified treating humans as resources can be handled better by AI. What remains for humans is what was always there but never had organizational space: the unique possibility, the collective intelligence, the care-sourced aligned action that no resource model can produce and no AI can…