Bottom line:
Past: AI as novelty.
Then: AI as creative tool.
Now: AI as workflow engine.
Next: AI as digital labor.
After that: AI as invention engine.
The singularity may not be here.
But the business disruption phase is already knocking.
We are not “in the singularity” yet.
But we are entering the phase that comes right before things get strange:
The AI systems phase.
Not just better prompts.
Not just better chatbots.
AI-powered workflows that start replacing entire chunks of work.