Rearranging The World For AI

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Description: ‘Abundant Intelligence’ by Nitin Mittal and Mike Walsh argues AI demands organizational redesign, emphasizing strategic intelligence allocation, human judgment, and accountability.

ENTERPRISE TECH

Maybe you read the title wrong, and thought it said: Re-arranging the world with AI. The technology certainly is being used, in many ways, but is it just a tool, or is this something more? And if AI is not a tool, or even a tool set, but a transformation, isn’t the challenge more about remaking the world to fit our current realities?

That’s the gist of a book that is coming out soon, where Nitin Mittal of Deloitte and Mike Walsh of Tomorrow, the joint authors of a book called “Abundant Intelligence,” lay out how their company is adjusting to an age where automation has big ramifications for traditionally human-led operations. I got a sneak preview of the book, which can be pre-ordered on Amazon, and it has some interesting things to say about AI.

Among the Cherries

Let’s start with this paragraph summarizing some of Mittal and Walsh’s work. It’s a descriptive passage, chronicling an important summit:

“In late February 2025, as the cherry blossoms began to open, the global executive committee of Deloitte gathered in Kyoto for a meeting regarding the rise of this new form of labor For Deloitte, an organization employing nearly half a million professionals, finding, training, and leveraging smart people had defined its success for its entire 185-year history. The Kyoto discussions marked a departure from talent arbitrage, seeking lower-cost human capital across geographies, toward digital arbitrage, where the primary competitive lever becomes the strategic arrangement of machine cognition.”

This sets the stage. It orients us to what the authors are talking about, and why. Let me take a crack at explaining this.

Maybe Mittal and Walsh say it better than I can.

Or take this line, which I think speaks volumes: