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The human advantage compounds: why the most automated decade in business history will reward the companies that back their people, not the ones that retire them. A version of this article originally appeared on Fortune.com In June of 2025, Jim Farley, the CEO of Ford, stood on a stage at the Aspen Ideas Festival and said that artificial intelligence would replace half of all white-collar workers in the United States. He was not the first to put a number on it. A month earlier, Dario Amodei of Anthropic told Axios that AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs within five years and drive unemployment as high as twenty percent. For more than a year, executive after executive has reframed the future of knowledge work as a countdown clock, and the predictions have only grown starker. I want to make the opposite case. Not that the work stays the same, because it will not, but that the people inside your company are about to become the most valuable asset you have, and that

Above the Model | Emergence Capital 415-800-1077 Contact Us X Linkedin Subscribe to Newsletter Menu Above the Model Gordon Ritter Gordon Ritter Gordon Ritter The Emergence Team 9:00 am PDT June 11, 2026 4 MIN READ Image: 1. This is some text inside of a div block. emergencecap The human advantage compounds: why the most automated decade in business history will reward the companies that back their people, not the ones that retire them. A version of this article originally appeared on Fortune.com In June of 2025, Jim Farley, the CEO of Ford, stood on a stage at the Aspen Ideas Festival and said

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