AI is advancing quickly — but many leaders are still framing it as an automation story: faster tasks, cheaper output, fewer people.

Sangeet Paul Choudary argues that this misses the real shift.

In this episode 127 of Meaningful Work, Meaningful Life, Francine Beleyi speaks with Sangeet — leading thinker on platforms, ecosystems, and the future of value creation, and author of Reshuffle —Who Wins when AI Restacks the Knowledge Economy to unpack a deeper reframe:

AI will reshape the world because we will restructure economic activity around it. The winners won’t be those who automate the most. They’ll be those who understand which assumptions are collapsing — and adapt their “game” accordingly.

We explore:

• Why disruption is often about coordination, not automation
• What the shipping container teaches us about AI’s second-order effects
• How Shein rewired fashion by breaking the assumptions of trend prediction and manufacturing cycles
• Why the pace of AI change feels more like a shock than previous waves of automation
• The difference between working above the algorithm and below the algorithm
• Why agency beats reassurance — and why reskilling without foresight becomes a trap
• How education must shift from testing to learning
• Why purpose depends on the real stakeholder and incentives, not PowerPoint statements
• Why ambition (not competition) may be the most human strategy in the AI age

This isn’t an episode about tools. It’s about identity, agency, and what it takes to stay meaningful as the rules of work are rewritten.

Show notes: www.francinebeleyi.com/podcast

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