Reshuffle

Who wins when AI restacks the knowledge economy

De: Sangeet Paul Choudary

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

What happens when the “know-how” that once defined expertise migrates from humans to AI tools? How do organizations reorganize when machines take over not just tasks but entire workflows? And most importantly, how does this reshaping of knowledge work change the products we use and the industries that have evolved around their production?

In today’s economy, value is no longer driven by materials but by knowledge - design, R&D, and innovation power everything from mining to pharmaceuticals to consumer products. Now, with artificial intelligence, we have a range of technologies that don’t just support knowledge work - they perform it.

RESHUFFLE delivers a bold and incisive exploration of how AI is upending the knowledge economy, reshaping not just work but the very foundations of power and control. It unpacks the four key tensions driving this transformation: between workers and their software tools, the providers of these tools and the firms that buy them, the businesses consolidating power and the industries they disrupt, and between empowered individuals and entrenched incumbents.

Blending compelling examples, historical parallels, and bold insights, RESHUFFLE equips readers to navigate the many opportunities and challenges that AI introduces while reshaping the knowledge economy. This book is your guide to understanding who wins - and who gets left behind - when AI restacks the deck.

AI reshuffles what it means to win

I had a vivid conversation about Sangeet's book with GPT-5 and this is our conclusion. Reshuffle brilliantly redirects our gaze from “AI as task automation” to “AI as system reshaping.” But it underestimates the ontological shift in value itself—from material output and coordination efficiency toward meaning, legitimacy, and governance. The true winners will be those who design the norms and institutions around AI, not only those who orchestrate ecosystems with it. In short, AI doesn’t just reshuffle who wins; it reshuffles what it means to win. As routine cognition becomes cheap, value shifts to sense-making, narratives, and trust systems. As AI floods us with synthetic options (texts, designs, ideas), value will be in curation, constraint, and legitimacy. Not only corporate ecosystems will be reshuffled—expect AI-mediated civic ecosystems reshuffling (citizens coordinating public goods via AI agents). Great book, worth not only reading, but studying in detail.