What would Peter Drucker, father of modern management, have to say about AI?

Business leaders, policy makers, and academics have the story of AI wrong. They fixate on what machines can do – like draft, code, analyze – when the real question is: now, what must humans do?

Peter Drucker, the father of modern management, answered that decades before algorithms entered our workplace: humans have a unique capacity to make judgements, take responsibility, and create purpose in their work. Those lessons are more urgent than ever, as AI takes over tasks but leaves us with the harder, more important work – deciding, judging, being accountable.

The urgency facing our workers is real. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell recently noted that new graduates, younger workers, and minorities are struggling to find jobs right out of college. As AI rapidly automates many tas