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I truly believe that a major artificial intelligence event is right around the corner. And that's important; because as a leader, you should always be thinking at least 10 steps ahead. If you can understand AI and the implications of what that's going to mean for the future, you can begin to create plans.

Many people have this belief that artificial intelligence is going to be a very negative experience. I want to get into the immediate implications of AI. So the one thing that's absolutely certain is that AI is going to replace millions of jobs, which means millions of people are going to be without a job.

People would think that's not going to be good. Well, I would beg to differ. The reason for that is because the vast majority of jobs that are going to get replaced are jobs, frankly, that most people don't want. The reason why most people are unhappy in life is because they work at a job that they don't like.

It makes total sense. You spend the majority of your time at your job, you spend the majority of your energy at your job, and if you're at a job that you don't like, then there's a lot of un-fulfillment that comes with that.

I think that's going to completely revolutionize the plain field because it's going to force people to ask a question that they have not asked themselves yet: what do I want? The question taps into your creativity and your imagination.

The challenge with potential is it only comes out when it must. And so what this event is going to do is it's going to force people to essentially become a better version of themselves because the crappy option is not going to be available to them anymore.

The next jump in artificial intelligence will be technology that can help human beings bring their ideas to life more easily. 3D printing has absolutely changed the game and that is really just the tip of the iceberg. It is a metaphor for what technology will be able to give people.

Technology will give people the ability to take their wildest, most creative ideas and bring them into reality in a very short amount of time.

The next phase of AI's growth is the ability to help mankind understand themselves. The first way to think about that is what's called trans-humanism, which is humans and technology merging together.

This is kind of similar to what Elon Musk is currently working on in terms of neuro-link: having technology integrate with the human body, having AI integrate with the human body. What if you could remember everything? What if you never got sick? What if the sky's the limit?

The other side is simply that technology helps mankind better understand themselves. It is said that that God created man in his image and I have a theory that technology is going to help us understand ourselves in a way that I believe Alan Watts said, “What if man created God in his image so that he could better understand himself?”

I truly believe that human beings have way more potential than they even realize. And the one thing that, no matter who I talk to always agrees with me on, is that human beings have way more potential than we think, regardless of what we've been able to achieve so far.

The singularity is when AI goes quantum and essentially become self-aware and has the ability to grow itself by itself. And that's where people get a bit scared. Human beings by nature, love to control things. We love to control our reality.

The idea that an ultimately intelligent piece of technology would be able to grow itself by itself gets a little scary because we wouldn't have control over it. But what I love to think about is that not that AI will become this evil entity that wants to enslave mankind. I believe that AI will advance so much that it will be able to see the potential of mankind and not see them as a nuisance.

I want to wrap this all up in the context of leadership. As a leader, what's important to know is that technology is going to wipe out a lot of jobs and you should begin thinking about how to create more space in your organization for creativity and for innovation.

However, a lot of those people that are out of a job are going to be very intelligent people that have the capacity to create exponential solutions and the ability to understand that technology is going to help us better understand ourselves.

If you are a visionary leader who wants to quantum leap your impact and leave a legacy of achieving the impossible, I am here and the world is waiting. Email me at shannon@shannongraham.com

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