AI isn’t changing how companies work. It’s changing what a company is

Stephen Messer is co-founder of Collective[i] and Intelligence.com, and has been writing about the AI economy on Artificial CommonSense at reloadnyc. This column synthesizes much of Messer’s recent writing, and is related to several others, including “What It Means to Be AI-First,” “The Oldest Trick in Management Just Stopped Working,” “The Weakest Link,” “The Next Computer Is Alive,” and “The Death of Privacy. The Rise of Unbreakable Communications.”