It Came For The Judgment, Not The Job

YPO Technology Network AI Brief · Sep 4, 2026 · 10m

On Wednesday, OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra and its president said it is "not unreasonable to feel that we are now in the AGI era." Two days earlier, an NPR reporter walked the floor of a GE Appliances oven plant in northwest Georgia, where a manufacturing vice president with nearly forty years on the floor gave his verdict on the AI running his line: "It can outthink me."

The story of applied AI this week is not that it took somebody's job. It took somebody's judgment.

In this episode, Stephen Forte covers:

The three AI systems running inside one plant: cameras that inspect every unit and stop…