The McKinsey Health Institute and the World Economic Forum recently released a landmark report, The Human Advantage: Stronger Brains in the Age of AI, which is an urgent wake-up call as much as an optimistic playbook. Its core argument is deceptively simple and brutally consequential: as artificial intelligence automates tasks and amplifies productivity, the scarce, durable source of comparative advantage for nations and firms will be “brain capital" – the combination of brain health and brain skills that underpin judgement, creativity, empathy
The McKinsey Health Institute and the World Economic Forum recently released a landmark report, The Human Advantage: Stronger Brains in the Age of AI, which is an urgent wake-up call as much as an optimistic playbook. Its core argument is deceptively simple and brutally consequential: as artificial intelligence automates tasks and amplifies productivity, the scarce, durable source of comparative advantage for nations and firms will be “brain capital" – the combination of brain health and brain skills that underpin judgement, creativity, empathy
