We face a civilizational choice. Not whether to embrace AI—that ship has sailed. But how to embrace it:
Path 1: The Diminishment Path - See AI as threat to human value - Compete on AI's terms - Automate without purpose - Optimize without meaning - Create efficient emptiness Path 2: The Amplification Path - See AI as revealer of human value - Excel at uniquely human capabilities - Automate to liberate creativity - Optimize to enable meaning - Create purposeful abundance The evidence overwhelming supports the second path. Every organization that's tried both reports the same conclusion: Human-AI collaboration creates more value, meaning, and possibility than either alone.