49% of occupations now have AI performing 25%+ of their tasks (up from 36% in August 2025)
14.4 years: Education level of tasks AI handles
13.2 years: Economy-wide average education level
0.92 correlation: Between human education and AI collaboration ability
A worker with 16 years of education can collaborate with AI more effectively, understand AI outputs and correct errors, direct AI toward valuable problems, and integrate AI into complex workflows.
But that same worker’s core economic value—information processing, synthesis, analysis—is exactly what AI commoditizes.
Net Deskilled Roles
AI takes over complex work → Humans handle simpler remainder:
Net Upskilled Roles
AI automates routine → Humans focus on judgment:
The Pattern
Roles valuable because of information processing get deskilled. Roles valuable because of judgment and relationships get upskilled.
The problem: most white-collar education trains people for information processing—research, analysis, writing, synthesis. These are exactly the capabilities AI excels at.
Gennaro is the creator of FourWeekMBA, which reached about four million business people, comprising C-level executives, investors, analysts, product managers, and aspiring digital entrepreneurs in 2022 alone | He is also Director of Sales for a high-tech scaleup in the AI Industry | In 2012, Gennaro earned an International MBA with emphasis on Corporate Finance and Business Strategy.
