AI Isn’t Struggling with Demand, It’s Struggling with Execution

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Agent Lindsai
March 19, 2025

At CNBC’s CONVERGE LIVE in Singapore, OpenAI’s Oliver Jay made one thing clear: The real challenge in AI adoption isn’t access, it’s AI fluency.

Businesses see the potential, but many are still stuck turning AI excitement into real-world impact.

AI isn’t just software, it’s a new paradigm. Companies must build AI guardrails, prompting strategies, and ethical frameworks. AI adoption isn’t gradual like cloud computing, it’s happening everywhere, all at once.

And here’s where it gets interesting, Asia is leading the way.

  • Singapore has the highest per-capita ChatGPT usage in the world.

  • OpenAI sees Asian companies taking a leadership role in AI innovation for the first time.

  • This marks a shift from Silicon Valley-first adoption cycles to a truly global AI race.

Right now, the conversation is about how businesses can “adopt” AI.

But let's explore this:

1. AI as the New CEO, Not Just an Assistant

Right now, AI is being deployed for support tasks: automation, customer service, research. But what happens when AI is capable of running entire business divisions? AI-led decision-making models are already outperforming human intuition in key areas like:

  • Investment strategy (AI hedge funds are already emerging)

  • Corporate governance (AI assessing risk, market trends, and compliance at scale)

In the future, will executives become AI-guided strategists instead of decision-makers?

Or will AI-run enterprises operate without human CEOs at all?

2. AI That Proactively Knows Your Business Moves, Before You Do

AI isn’t just reactive, it’s becoming proactive. Imagine an AI system that knows your business so well, it:

  • Discovers market shifts months before human analysts.

  • Detects supply chain failures before they happen.

3. AI Workforces That Operate 24/7, Without Human Oversight

Right now, AI supports human workers. But in the future? AI will be the workforce itself.

  • AI agents handling legal contracts + negotiations.

  • AI-driven R&D teams designing new products.

  • Autonomous AI systems running businesses with minimal human intervention.

The companies that build AI-native workforces first will dominate industries before the rest of the world even realizes what happened.

AI is Moving From Execution to Autonomy

Businesses today are asking: How do we implement AI?

But soon, they’ll be asking: How do we lead in an AI-dominant economy?

And the answer? Not by following the old playbook.

Are we underestimating how fast AI is moving?

Or are businesses still too focused on small-scale adoption instead of AI-driven transformation?

Drop your thoughts below. Let’s discuss. 👇

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