Erika Jones, CFO, CCTAProfit First Professionals · Certified Fractional CFO and Profit First Professional

How to Beat AI #ai #businessgrowth #leadership #kindness

28 May 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, the speaker, standing in Los Angeles and observing a piece of art, reflects on the societal impact of artificial intelligence. They argue that AI is precipitating a "death of STEM"—the decline of traditional science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines—while simultaneously ushering in the rise of what they term ACE: arts, creativity, and empathy, which they claim are uniquely human strengths. The speaker concludes by posing a provocative question to business leaders: how can organizations actively deploy ACE to thrive in an AI‑driven world?

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I'm in LA today, and I was looking at this piece of art over here, and, uh, it's interesting, it's peculiar, it makes you think. And as I was looking at that, I said, oh my gosh, we are, because of AI, experiencing the death of STEM— science, technology, engineering, math. But we're seeing the rise of ACE, a new term I have, which is the arts, creativity, empathy. That's where humans excel. So in your business, how are you deploying the ACE? Something to think about.