Today’s insights are brought to you by my colleague, global futurist expert Graeme Codrington.
ChatGPT quietly turned three this month – not very old in human years, but in AI years it’s basically a teenager with a driver’s licence and questionable judgment.
And right around its birthday, OpenAI released a white paper with a message every leader needs to hear:
AI is changing how work happens, not just the tools we use. The fastest path to impact is a workforce fluent in AI, with people who know when and how to apply it.
That fluency takes practice: Teams need space to test, iterate, and make AI part of everyday work. Without that, rollout stalls and experiments never scale.
Now if you’ve heard me, or any of the TomorrowToday team speak about bionic organisations – where human ingenuity and technology amplify each other – this will sound familiar.
Bionic organisations aren’t the organisations with the most tools. Rather – they’re the organisations where their people build the muscle to use these tools well.
OpenAI puts it simply: AI isn’t a technology project. It’s a learning project.
So – if your organisation is stuck in “pilot purgatory,” perhaps ask yourself if the problem is that you skipped the fluency step.
Bionic organisations don’t start with tech. They start with mindset, culture, and capability – places where people experiment freely, curiosity is rewarded, failure is part of learning, and technology amplifies talent rather than intimidating it.
OpenAI’s white paper echoes exactly this:
Stop rolling out tools. Start building organisations where learning is the operating system.
We’ve been experimenting too. Meet GraemeGPT.
To practise what we preach, I’ve been building a virtual avatar version of myself – GraemeGPT – trained on my ThrowForward Thursday videos, future frameworks, books, our white papers, and imagination tools.
It’s still in beta, but it’s already showing what’s possible when AI becomes a thinking partner – helping leaders explore futures, spark ideas, and build fluency.
You can try it here:
👉 www.graemecodrington.com/askgraeme
(Let us know how it works for you!)
The future won’t wait. But it will reward leaders and teams who learn faster than the world changes.
AI isn’t the destination – it’s the invitation:
To imagine differently.
To build bionic organisations.
To lead with curiosity rather than certainty.
And as always – don’t rely solely on an email (or even GraemeGPT!) for critical decisions.
Reach out to the real Graeme anytime for deeper, human-led insight and conversation.
Reach out to the real Graeme Codrington anytime for deeper, human-led insight and conversation.