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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.พ. 2025
- Welcome to M01 Rocketeers - the podcast by Maria 01, the Nordics’ leading startup community and launchpad for the future.
In this Futures Tales series, we delve into the cutting-edge world of emerging technologies and visionary ideas, listen to fascinating future scenarios and discuss how the future might or might not unfold. Join us as we embark on a journey to explore the possible, plausible, and preferable futures with the brightest minds of the Finnish startup scene.
We kick off each episode by listening to a discussion-provoking story from the future-a scenario blending fact and imagination, crafted using strategic foresight methods. You can also find the story below.
Join us as we dive into the future of work with generative AI: How will humans and machines collaborate? Could an AI twin simplify the busy lives of startup founders? Is retraining essential, and can AI support us in that journey? And what distinct human qualities will remain irreplaceable? Join us as we explore what the future may hold for Finnish and European companies!
Our guests for this episode are:
Chris Petrie, CEO & Co-Founder at Kwizie.ai. Kwizie is the best tool for creating gamified quiz tests from video with AI.
Lauri Paloheimo, Co-Founder & Head of Change at Pandatron. Pandatron is a leader in AI-driven coaching and change management, providing innovative, personalized support to organizations.
Jaakko Kaikuluoma, CEO & Co-founder at Teamspective. Teamspective is a solution for organizational performance management in three domains: employee engagement, performance management and collaboration.
Our special guest for each episode is Sarita Runeberg, CEO of Maria 01. Hosted by Camilla Mikama, Marketing & Communications Manager at Maria 01.
FUTURE TALES: MACHINE MENTORSHIP
Dear Citizens,
The era of unprecedented productivity and seemingly endless opportunities for retraining is drawing to a close. As your Prime Minister, it is my solemn duty to confront the reality of our situation and confess a profound failure: the Human Capabilities Retraining Program has been declared a complete disaster. Despite years of effort, the Ministry of Education has been unable to produce the AI duplicates of our finest minds-professors of humanity, creativity, and co-creation-the very disciplines that are now vital to our survival. Now, with no other choice, we must return to the old-world methods of human-conducted education. This regression will set our retraining targets back by years, perhaps decades.
In the early 2030s, we witnessed an extraordinary leap in productivity. But even this golden age had its roots in crisis. By the late 2020s, a catastrophic shortage of AI experts gripped the world, sparking a massive exodus of talent from Europe to the tech behemoths of America and China. Our continent faced an intellectual haemorrhage that threatened to drain the lifeblood of technological innovation. In response, the EU launched an audacious program: to create AI twins-exact digital replicas of our top minds in artificial intelligence and cutting-edge research. These AI twins disseminated their knowledge at a speed unimaginable to the human brain, solving the shortage of AI talent once and for all.
The results were spectacular. Europe ascended to an economic superpower, the new global hub of technology. AI-infused organizations streamlined operations so effectively that the demand for human labour plummeted. Unemployment surged, but we responded with progressive policies-the four-day workweek, universal basic income, and the unprecedented robot tax, which allayed societal unrest.
The productivity boom empowered corporations to take over much of the retraining process. As academia lost ground, the baton of knowledge transfer passed into corporate hands. The early successes of our Retraining Program were rooted in technical knowledge-an area where AI twins excelled. But as artificial intelligence evolved towards general intelligence, penetrating deeper into every facet of life, the cracks began to show. A shift was needed-from technical prowess to human-centred capabilities. Collaboration, co-creation, empathy-these were the pillars of the new world we envisioned. But try as we might, our AI twins could not grasp the soul of these concepts and were thus unable to teach them to their human students.
It is with great regret, dear citizens, that I stand before you today to admit what should have been obvious all along. Machines, no matter how advanced, will never replicate the depth of human emotion, creativity, and connection. And so, I must deliver this hard truth: the most essential skills, the ones that make us truly human, cannot be taught by machines. We have arrived at a crossroads where technology meets its limits. As we step back into the old world of human mentorship, we must remind ourselves of one simple fact-humanity was always meant to lead, not follow.
