Kevin Surace warns that employees ignoring AI tools will be replaced first. He predicts most people in the audience won't be there next year if they don't adopt AI. Small AI-native startups can outcompete large companies with thousands of workers.
People who are not AI first probably aren't going to survive. So the people that are going to be let go aren't the people using AI. It's the people not using AI. And I had emphasized this so much in my keynotes where I'm talking to the room and half, three-quarters of the room barely uses AI. I say, sadly, if I come back here next year and speak to your group, the people not using AI won't be here. And I'm not your CEO, but he's in the room and I know what he's thinking. And he's going, he's agreeing with me. He's trying to tell them this, right? So it's not that the C-suite isn't saying, get out there and use AI. The C-suite has recognized that they They are going to get crushed by a Silicon Valley startup with 8 people in it, and they've got 8,000, and they're gonna get crushed by someone with 8 people because those people started a business 100% with agents, and they're AI first, agents everything, and they just crush people.
