The New Intelligence Divide and Economic Impact
📌 The next major societal divide may be based on intelligence, separating those who can afford advanced AI from those who cannot, potentially increasing wealth inequality.
🤖 Advanced AI models already score higher in intelligence than 95% of humans in certain benchmarks and are rapidly improving in coding, design, and decision-making.
📉 This shift directly threatens India's primary economic engine, as software services, IT consulting, and tech talent (coding, backend systems) are precisely the work AI is learning to automate faster and cheaper.

Vulnerability of Job Sectors
🏭 Unlike the Industrial Revolution which automated physical labor, the current AI wave targets intellectual work (writing, design, diagnosis, coding), which was previously considered uniquely human.
💻 Digital work done entirely on a screen is far easier to replace, while jobs requiring unpredictable physical labor, like plumbing or electrical work, are currently safer from automation.
📉 Major IT firms like TCS recently fired 12,000 employees, signaling that companies are rapidly adopting AI to replace roles that can be done faster and cheaper by technology.

Leverage, Competition, and Adaptation
🔄 Every major technological shift breaks old monopolies (e.g., Radio disrupted by TV, TV by Internet), and AI represents potentially the last such leverage creating ultimate monopolies that underdogs cannot compete against.
🏃 The competitive landscape is shifting from being the absolute "best" to simply being "ahead of the average person" who ignores the shift, emphasizing the risk of standing still.
💡 The historical advantage of humans—intelligence—is being replicated, meaning leverage must now come from areas AI cannot easily replicate.

Strategies for Staying Relevant
📣 Distribution (audience, brand, email lists) will become paramount because AI drives the cost of creation toward zero, making attention and access the true scarce resource.
🧠 Taste and Judgment—the ability to know what to build, direct AI effectively, and judge quality—is emerging as a critical, hard-to-automate human skill.
🧪 The current moment is analogous to the early days of the internet in the late '90s; focus must be on experimentation, paying attention, and utilizing personal judgment as the AI wave has not yet peaked.

Key Points & Insights
➡️ The primary risk is not just job replacement but the creation of an irreversible intelligence gap between those who control advanced AI and those who do not.
➡️ If your job exists entirely on a screen and involves content creation or digital tasks, you are currently in the easiest-to-replace category.
➡️ Focus immediate efforts on building owned distribution channels (personal brand, email list) as creation becomes commoditized by AI.
➡️ Developing sharp human judgment and taste for directing AI output is the most valuable skill, superseding traditional technical expertise in many creative and consultative fields.

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