Artificial Intelligence

The AI Value Stack: Why Position Beats Capability

Most AI strategies optimize for capability instead of position. This framework shows where value is created, compounded, and captured across the AI…

Apr 23 • Alex Pawlowski

AI Is Collapsing Value — Here’s Where to Compete Instead

AI doesn’t destroy value — it moves it. Here’s where to build defensibility as features commoditize.

Apr 17 • Alex Pawlowski

AI Is Not Killing SaaS. It Is Rebuilding It Around Intent.

The shift from workflow SaaS to AI orchestration layers is reshaping enterprise margins and control.

Mar 1 • Alex Pawlowski

When Does Technology Stop Being a Tool?

When artificial intelligence starts structuring our decisions — economically, cognitively, institutionally — we’ve crossed a threshold. Here’s why that…

Feb 17 • Alex Pawlowski

Agentic AI and the Coming Economic Transformation

AI isn’t just doing tasks — it’s learning to coordinate. Welcome to the age of agentic systems, where markets, firms, and institutions begin to think.

Nov 3, 2025 • Alex Pawlowski

Managing the New Workforce: Humans + Agents

#111: Leading in the Age of AI Agents: A Leadership Roadmap

Sep 26, 2025 • Alex Pawlowski and Elina

The Visible Hand: How Agentic AI Makes Adam Smith’s Metaphor Real

Adam Smith imagined it. Agentic AI is building it. Here’s how autonomous systems are turning self-interest into system-level strategy.

Jul 31, 2025 • Alex Pawlowski

Artificially Intelligent, Naturally Blind: Why Smart Machines Still Don’t Get the World

AI can talk, code, and predict—but without world models, it’s still blind. Here’s why understanding is the new frontier.

Jul 27, 2025 • Alex Pawlowski

The Infinite Labor Dilemma: Can Humans Thrive in an AI-Driven Economy?

Explore the economic, social, and ethical choices shaping work in an AI-driven future.

Jul 20, 2025 • Alex Pawlowski

How Advanced Is AI in 2026? Current AI Capabilities, Limitations & Bottlenecks

From narrow generalization to systemic bottlenecks, here’s what leaders must know about AI’s limits — and what’s next on the path to AGI.

Jun 29, 2025 • Alex Pawlowski

The Oracle in the Machine: How AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Search

From blue links to dialogic reasoning, search is becoming a thinking partner. But who governs the new gatekeepers of knowledge?

May 22, 2025 • Alex Pawlowski

The Reverse Turing Test: Can Humans Still Surprise AI?

In a world where AI anticipates our every move, can human creativity still break the script?

May 20, 2025 • Alex Pawlowski