“In a world where anything can be learned, what matters is deciding what’s worth doing,” says Bernardo Caldas. He challenges one of the most persistent ideas in organisations — that the answer to AI is reskilling — calling that strategy “simply absurd.”

His reasoning is straightforward: AI is “the technology that best learns how to learn” and “the tool that best works with other tools,” which means skills are no longer the main constraint. Choice is.

The real advantage, he argues, shifts to “agency” — the ability to identify the problems that matter and act on them. This reframes how we think about talent, not as the accumulation of capabilities, but as a question of direction.

In this view, the future will not belong to those who know more, but to those who decide better.