What Is Changing
AI is not waiting to replace your job. It is already dismantling it — one task at a time — and reassembling what remains in a different shape.
Look at your role as a list of tasks, not a title. Write down the five things you spend the most time on. For each: does this require my judgment, or could AI handle it well with my oversight? Pick one task in the "AI can help here" column and find the tool that handles it. Free the time, and reinvest it in the task where your judgment is what cannot be replicated. D5 frames this as a workspace design question: which tasks you invest in, which you route to AI, and where you practise the boundary navigation the labour market now values.
Why It Matters
Treating roles as fixed job descriptions makes workforce change feel abstract and threatening. Task-level design makes the choice practical: preserve human accountability and judgment while using AI to reduce predictable preparation and routine work.
The 6xD Reading
Through D5, the unit of transformation is the work unit: tasks, workspace, tools, and performance measures evolve together. Through D2, teams learn when exceptions and outcomes improve the next way of working.
Leadership Takeaway
Choose one role already using AI. Map its tasks, define which activities remain human-led, specify the review points, and update one measure to assess the performance of the human-AI pair.
