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.