Eric Siu argues only 0.007% of people worldwide are truly AI-fluent, with roughly 250,000 to 500,000 people "AI-pilled." He says experts won't disappear, agencies will survive, and most roles will be reskilled as AI adoption is still in its early stages.
0.07%. Okay, so according to what he said, so he says that 500,000 people in the world are super AI-pilled right now, if not like maybe even 250,000. So if you divide that by 7 billion, it's 0.07%, right? It's a very small number. So what does that mean exactly? If 250,000, 500,000 people are AI-pilled, what that means is we're going to need way more compute, way more electricity, way more a lot of things. And agencies are not dead. Okay, the harsh reality of AI right now is is maybe we're just in the second inning, maybe, and that's it, right? But all this talk about, oh, agencies are going to be dead, no one needs ad managers anymore, this and that. You can say we're biased, but I just, I don't think you can say that for a lot of these roles. And a lot of the roles that people don't want to do anymore, we're just going to be reskilled into other areas. So harsh reality, only $250K to $500K, that puts things into perspective.
