AI and the Future of Work: Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace, Business, Ethics, HR, and IT for AI Enthusiasts, Leaders and Academics 379: AI and the End of the Knowledge Economy: Gen Alpha, Reskilling, and the Rise of Creative Work, with Matt Britton, Founder and CEO of Suzy
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Mar 9, 2026 
Matt Britton, Founder and CEO of Suzy and author of Generation AI, studies generational change and AI’s business impact. He discusses how AI shifts value from memorized knowledge to creative problem solving. He covers reskilling challenges, Gen Alpha’s AI-native expectations, robotics disrupting service jobs, and why companies should solve core problems before chasing tools.
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Product Beats Mad Men Advertising
- Product-driven growth now outperforms advertising-dominated brand building from the TV era.
- Britton contrasts iconic TV-era brands with modern winners like Zoom and Google that succeeded by solving a real product need.
The Age Of An Audience Of One
- Hyper-personalization enables an audience of one where each communication is unique.
- Britton explains every email can be tailored via a customer record so companies should stop sending identical mass emails.
Start With Problems Not Tools
- Focus on the most important problems before choosing AI tools.
- Matt Britton recommends identifying three growth-limiting problems and building automations or agents for them instead of licensing many point tools.
