Q94　Who Decides the Future in the AI Era?

The Short Answer

The future is decided not by AI, but by each and every human being.

Unpacking the Question

In the AI era, who decides the future?
AI?
Governments?
Giant corporations?
I believe it is each and every one of us.
Society does not change all at once.
The choices each of us makes pile up, changing companies,
changing markets,
changing society.
Which product we choose.
What company we work for.
Whom we cheer on.
What we spend our time on.
Each one of those decisions is shaping the future, little by little.
AI can analyze vast amounts of information.
It can predict the future.
It can even propose better options.
But it cannot decide what future we should choose.
In that choice, there are values.
There is hope.
There is responsibility.
These belong to humans alone.
In Future Value Theory, we hold that the future is something humans keep on creating.
The future is not something to wait for.
It is not something to predict.
As each person holds a will of their own and acts on it, the future is created, little by little.
Precisely because this is the AI era, we carry the responsibility of choosing the future.
The protagonist of the future is not AI.
It is we ourselves.

Implications for Management

It is not AI that decides the future—it is human will.
What is asked of managers is not only to predict the future.
It is to choose what future they want to realize, and to move the organization in that direction.
Decisions about the future are the very center of management in the AI era.

How Would You Answer?

What future do you want to choose?
And for the sake of that future, what step will you take today?