There is still a great deal we cannot predict about AI. In fact, despite how quickly AI is being adopted, the full consequences will take years to reveal themselves across work, culture, economics, and society. But the broader pattern is already visible.
AI has given individuals access to leverage that once required entire organizations, or at minimum far more capital and time. Output that previously depended on teams can now begin with one person and a machine. That shift alone changes everything downstream.
History tells us what happens next. When high-agency people get cheap, abundant leverage, they use it. AI puts that leverage in more hands than ever before and forces all of us to confront a simple fact: you really can just do things now. The barriers have collapsed, which means change will arrive faster, from stranger places, and with more force than most people expect.