Tim Oliver Pröhm

People keep framing this as a choice. It isn't. The collision between AI-driven labor displacement and payroll-based social systems is already in motion. We just haven't hit the moment where the math becomes undeniable.

65% of Germany's social security is funded by work-related taxes. The AI debate talks endlessly about jobs disappearing. Nobody talks about what happens to that 65%.

6/ The real workforce question isn't "humans vs. AI." It's: Which humans, augmented by which AI, deployed where, and developed how? That's not a technology decision. That's a talent intelligence decision. Heading to #TLIA London next week and @ProcureCon Europe after that. This is the conversation.

5/ Here's what keeps me up at night: AI augmentation works best when the human in the loop has deep domain expertise. Remove that expertise through retirement without replacement, and the AI system's value degrades too.

🧵 1/ The AI-replaces-jobs debate has a massive blind spot. Everyone's arguing about whether AI takes our jobs. Almost nobody is talking about the fact that the workers are already disappearing.

3/ AI augmentation works best when the human in the loop has deep expertise. Remove that expertise through retirement without replacement, and the AI degrades too. The question isn't humans vs. AI. It's who's left to work with the AI. Almost nobody is planning for this.

2/ The numbers: • 6,000 Boomers leave the U.S. workforce daily • Germany: -3.9M working-age people by 2030 • Entry-level tech hiring: down 50%+ • Consulting grad intakes: cut 20-30% • 41% of orgs never capture retiring employees' knowledge

1/ The AI job debate is missing the plot. The white-collar workforce is already shrinking from both ends: ↓ Experienced people retiring at historic rates ↑ AI automating the entry-level roles that train replacements The middle is getting crushed.

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