Division of Intelligence

Rethinking the Purpose of Organizing in the Age of AI

Organizations exist primarily to coordinate human labor through division of tasks and hierarchical structures. This logic rests on human-specific constraints (e.g., cognitive limits, bounded rationality, transaction costs). With AI as a coordinator, analyst, and decision maker, the overarching purpose of organizing might not revolve around how to divide tasks among humans, but rather how to configure relationships among human teams, AI services, data flows, and computational resources.

Move from “How do we use AI to improve existing structures?” to “How do we design structures that themselves revolve around AI capabilities?”