Puri: Future corporate hierarchies will invert, with humans working for AI bosses
Shaan Puri · I put 80% of my money in the S&P after a billionaire investor told me not to · May 11, 2026 · at 41:57
Shaan Puri discusses emerging AI enterprise paradigms and inverted corporate organizational structures on My First Million.
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“And I think actually it's going the other way, which is it's not that the AI works for us, but that we work for the AI. And people are going to hate that sentence, but let me just describe what that means. AI is very good at Understanding a broad set of information, having eyes and ears everywhere, reading everything, knowing everything, and making decisions. Today, we use it as this sort of junior employee, but it does seem like the way this is going is that AI becomes the boss.”
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