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Will AI take your job in the next 10 years? Wrong question | Vinciane Beauchene

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Society & Culture, Ted, Ted Talks Daily, Ted Podcast, Ted Talks

4.112.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

As AI agents take over more tasks at work, the question isn’t whether or not humans matter — it’s how we make our impact count. Leadership expert Vinciane Beauchene challenges some commonly held assumptions about how AI will transform the workplace, sharing a blueprint for leaders to design organizations where people can focus on what truly makes a difference.



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0:00.0

You're listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas and conversations to spark your curiosity every day.

0:13.6

I'm your host, Elise Hugh. One of the biggest tests we're facing with artificial intelligence might be that it's making us rethink

0:21.7

what humans are actually for. In her talk, leadership expert Vansian Buchen looks past the

0:28.4

fear as well as the hype around AI and challenges some of our most commonly held assumptions

0:33.5

about work, skills, and job protection. She asks, in a world where machines can do more and more,

0:39.3

how do we design organizations where human value truly matters and can't be replaced?

0:49.3

Back in the 50s, Alan Turing came up with an idea.

0:59.0

If you couldn't tell if you were talking to a machine or a human,

1:05.0

it meant the machine must be intelligent.

1:08.0

He coined the Turing test. Today, most chatbots pass the test easily.

1:14.6

But here's the catch.

1:16.6

I believe the test was wrong.

1:19.6

Because talking isn't what's going to change the world.

1:24.6

Doing is.

1:26.6

That's why I ask a slightly different question to the leaders I work with.

1:32.3

On a daily basis, my role is to reshape organizations

1:36.3

trying to find the right mix of strategy, tech and talent.

1:42.3

And my obsession is to make sure that talents do not get out of the equation.

1:49.5

So the question I ask my client is, if an AI could take over all of your team's tasks,

1:58.4

who would you keep and why?

2:02.2

That question is strategic.

2:04.6

And the answer matters to me, not just intellectually,

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