AI is coming for your job. Your kid’s education is doomed. No one will learn anything. Salespeople will be replaced by bots. Teachers too.
We’ve been fed the wrong story.
It’s nonsense.
The truth is simpler and more exciting.
In the near future, AI is embedding expertise into the moment. It’s making humans better at being human. And the shift has already begun.
Two big changes are shaping what’s next:
- Expertise is becoming ambient.
- Performance is becoming co-piloted.
Let’s talk about what that really means.
Expertise used to be someone in the room
If you wanted to sell well, you shadowed the best closer on your team.
If you wanted to teach well, you learned from master educators.
If you wanted to get better at anything, you needed access… to people, to time, to practice.
I don’t mean to say that MASTERY doesn’t still require these things, it does. BUT AI can absolutely speed up that mastery and even carry a good portion of it.
Imagine a sales rep, mid-Zoom, who’s being shown insights about the prospect’s industry, product objections, and decision-making style. Insights pulled from past interactions, company history, and competitor analysis. In real time.
Imagine a tutor helping a struggling student sees a live overlay showing what that student has historically misunderstood, how they best absorb information, and what emotional cues might signal confusion.
That’s ambient expertise.
It’s woven into the moment and becomes a superpower.
AUGMENTING human-ness, not replacing it.
From interface to intuition
The best technology fades into the background. It becomes invisible. It feels like instinct.
That’s where this is going.
No dashboards. No task-switching. No endless tab-hopping.
Just the right insight, at the right time, delivered quietly and precisely.
With AR and AI working together, the interface disappears. Guidance starts to feel like intuition. Like a voice in your head that already knows what you need.
This isn’t about surveillance. This isn’t about control.
It’s about partnership. You choose the co-pilot. You shape the guidance.
And when that guidance is trained on the best data available, your curriculum, your product, your customer or student profiles, it doesn’t feel artificial. It feels like you have a superpower.
Co-pilots don’t replace pilots
No one wants autopilot in a high-stakes sales negotiation.
No parent wants a chatbot teaching their child empathy or resilience.
Humans still matter. Deeply.
But what if your best people had genius-level backup?
What if the new sales hire didn’t have to memorize 500 pages of product specs?
What if the underpaid tutor didn’t have to guess what a student struggled with last week?
Co-pilots make people better.
They reduce cognitive load. They catch mistakes before they happen.
They free up space for creativity, nuance, and connection.
To me, an exciting future isn’t robots taking over.
It’s people showing up sharper, faster, and more prepared because they aren’t flying solo.
This unlocks a better kind of performance
Let’s talk outcomes.
- New team members get up to speed 10x faster
- Decision fatigue plummets as micro-decisions are automated
- Teachers spend more time actually teaching, less time wrangling tools
- Salespeople sell with more confidence and less guesswork
It’s like giving everyone on your team a private coach who never gets tired and always knows the playbook.
And when that layer of support becomes ambient… seamless, silent, personalized… something big changes.
Performance stops being about remembering. It starts being about responding. Creating. Connecting.
A more human future, not less
Here’s the paradox: AI doesn’t strip away our humanity.
It gives it back.
When the machines take the grunt work, we take the high ground.
We teach. We persuade. We empathize. We lead.
A prompt here. A suggestion there. A nudge that saves the deal. A hint that cracks the lesson.
And the people who learn to work with it, who embrace the idea of co-pilots and ambient expertise, will win.
The future, that I see, is co-piloted.
And it’s a hell of a lot more human than you think.
Let’s discuss how to get your company prepared to compete in this near future!
