Lunch with Chris: The 3% AI Can’t Replace
About this episode
Chris McAlister discusses the irreplaceable human qualities in the age of AI and introduces his new book.
You can replace your human assistant with AI. What you can’t replace is the human who knows where to draw the line. Chris opens with his own swap — and a book that changes the calculus. Chris McAlister goes live every Wednesday at lunch. This week: the launch of ‘The 3% Shift: The Human Edge in the Age of AI’ — and the urgent framework it delivers. AI will handle 97% of the doing. The 3% it can never touch is the human edge: the capacity to imagine what isn’t yet real, discern what’s wise, and build relationships that last. IBM, Standard Chartered, Meta — the headlines are already writing this story. Chris gives you the model to stay on the right side of it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 WHAT YOU’LL LEARN 🔍 How Chris replaced his human assistant with an AI chief of staff in March — and what the experiment revealed about where the human work actually lives ⚡ The IBM case: AI handled 94% of HR requests and hit a wall on the 6% requiring human judgment — and why the market is now “repricing the 3%” 🌳 Real stories of AI-first leadership going wrong: the Standard Chartered CEO’s “lower value human capital” moment, Meta’s contradictory town hall, and what insecurity looks like…
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