AI Will Never Be Self-Driving — Why Human Enablement Still Matters

There is no autopilot for strategy. Yet many firms treat AI like it will eventually "run itself” — as if the endgame is full automation. That logic is flawed. Not because AI can’t scale, but because the work that matters most is still human: judgement, interpretation, direction.

AI can produce outputs. But meaning, relevance, and action still rest with people. And unless those people are equipped to engage critically with AI — challenging it, contextualising it, redirecting it — it becomes a liability, not a lever.

The danger isn’t AI replacing humans. It’s humans disengaging from decisions they no longer understand. When that happens, the organisation loses its ability to steer. Insight turns into noise. And “autonomous” systems end up requiring even more oversight to undo poor decisions.

The solution is enablement. Not just training, but strategic fluency. Leaders and teams must know how to ask better questions, interpret AI output in context, and adjust course in real time.

Self-driving isn’t the goal. Co-driving is.