The Wrong AI Question
Much of the conversation around AI focuses on one question:
How many jobs will AI replace?
But what if that's the wrong question?
A recent Fortune article argues that the more important question is how AI can improve human judgment and decision-making. The companies that create the most value won't necessarily be the ones with the fewest employees—they'll be the ones that combine human expertise and AI most effectively.
We see this every day in energy permitting.
Permit applications aren't delayed because there aren't enough smart people involved. In fact, the opposite is often true. Engineers, geologists, environmental scientists, permit writers, attorneys, and regulators all bring critical expertise to the process.
The challenge is that these experts spend enormous amounts of time on activities that don't fully utilize that expertise:
updating thousands of pages of documentation
checking for consistency across reports
tracking regulatory changes
searching for information
responding to repetitive requests
AI is uniquely suited to help with those tasks.
The goal isn't to replace the engineer, geologist, or permit writer.
The goal is to give them more time to do what humans do best:
analyze complex situations
exercise judgment
solve problems
build consensus
make decisions
At Permeta, that's how we think about AI.
Not as a replacement for experts.
As a force multiplier for experts.
The future of energy permitting won't be humans versus AI.
It will be humans and AI working together to permit energy infrastructure faster, more accurately, and more effectively.
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More info Gordon Ritter from Fortune
