AI has moved faster in the last two years than most people can get their heads around. And here is the thing nobody talks about enough: AI is now accelerating its own development. The last six months alone have been staggering. The pace is not slowing down. If anything, we are just getting started.
The problem is that the rate at which people are actually keeping up with it? That has not moved at all.
I have seen people sign up for Python courses starting in September. By the time those courses begin, the landscape will have shifted again. That is not a criticism of anyone choosing to learn. It is a reality check on how fast this is moving and how quickly the goalposts change.
Jobs will reduce. Some will be replaced by new ones. But let us be honest about what that actually means on the ground. Is Susan and John in HR really ready to embrace whatever new tool lands on their desk next quarter? In most organisations, the answer is no. Not because they cannot. Because nobody has prepared them.
Companies have the appetite for AI. The productivity gains are too significant to ignore. But appetite without readiness is just chaos. You cannot drive transformation through a workforce that has not been brought along for the journey.
I Have Always Championed the Underdog
I spent 15 years at Virgin Atlantic. A carrier with 60-odd flights a day competing against airlines running 500, 800 flights a day. By every conventional measure, it should not work. But it does. Because smaller, leaner, more agile businesses can move in ways the big players simply cannot.
That is exactly what I think about when I look at AI right now.
The companies without millions to throw at this. The people on the front lines who need to adapt. The entrepreneurs running lean teams who need to grow with the technology or risk getting left behind. These are the people I built The AI Training Co for.
AI and Everyone
AI & Everyone exists for exactly that reason. Not to turn everyone into a developer. Not to overwhelm people with jargon and theory. But to bring every person in a business up to a shared level of understanding about what AI actually is, what it means for their role, and how to use it with confidence.
Because a smaller business is more agile. It can move faster, test things, fail quickly and adapt. There are genuine advantages to being lean right now. But none of that matters if your people do not understand the technology they are being asked to work alongside.
Everyone needs to understand AI first. That is where it starts.