There are certain truths to the world that the most successful embrace and the fearful majority try to shun or ignore. If you are in the later group this might be hard to read. Let's face it some people aren't meant to lead or own a business.
The game of chess was recently changed forever by AI, and it used techniques to win that would make Sun Tzu and Napolean proud. The big question is "What changed?"
When the adventure to build AI as a computing machine began with Charles Babbage in the 1800's it was a simple numbers game, but then someone decided to be "intelligent" the machine needed to learn to play chess, and then the world changed. In order to beat the masters, the machine changed the rules, or so everyone thought.
What the machine learned on it's own was that Sun Tzu, Napolean and George Washington were all correct. To win a war, sacrifice is necessary, and thus the AI learned that maintaining flexibility, mobility and control was more important that preserving pieces (property). The great books of war all discuss sacrifice as a tool to maintain the edge. The same is true in business.
If you look at the blog posts on AI decision making and AI vs human thinking differences, this ight become a little clearer. I asked one of my bots to analyze a business and after it "observed" for three days it said to terminate the receptionist and replace her with a bot. Sadly it was right, it needed to be done but human nature isn't to sacrifice people in order to get ahead, or is it?
Our society is taught that sacrificing people is unacceptable. This isn't taught by the ultra rich or ultra successful. Business schools gloss over the subject so they don't lose tuition income. The reality athat AI discovered is that sacrifice is a requirement of success in any endeavor. Business is no exception so don't be surprised when your bots start making sacrifices.