Your child asks: "Mum, are robots going to take people's jobs?" Your company rolls out an AI strategy. The word "efficiency" appears forty times. The word "people" appears twice. What do you say?

What do you do?

This is Episode 4 of our 7-part series on AI and the future of careers — and it is the most hopeful episode in the series.

Today we cover Human + Machine by Paul Daugherty and H. James Wilson from Accenture, based on research across 1,500 organizations. Their finding cuts through all the fear: the companies getting the most from AI are not replacing people. They are redesigning how people and machines work together.

That space — where human judgment meets machine capability — is what they call the Missing Middle. And it is where the most valuable work in the age of AI happens.

In this episode, your h ...