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Stephen Wunker is Managing Director of New Markets Advisors, a global consulting firm helping ambitious innovators—including 32 of the Fortune 500—find their next wave of growth. One of the world’s leading authorities on innovation, he’s led a decade’s worth of AI initiatives, advised hundreds of organizations, and authored five bestselling books. Jonathan Brill is the Futurist-in-Residence at Amazon and Executive Director of the Center for Radical Change. Ranked the #1 futurist in the world by Forbes and described as “the world’s leading transformation architect” by Harvard Business Review, Brill converts the chaos of AI, geopolitical shifts, and economic disruption into bold advantage. He’s unlocked tens of billions for multinational corporations, frontier tech firms, and national governments. Their new book is AI and the Octopus Organization: Building the Superintelligent Firm. Learn more at www.aiandtheoctopus.com.

AI’s true advantage isn’t replacing human intelligence, but enhancing coordination across teams. Organizations that distribute decision-making, share information openly, and act quickly will outperform those stuck in slow, centralized structures.

The Secret to Building a Superintelligent Organization? Think Like an Octopus

April 2, 2026 Stephen Wunker Comments Off

We’ve been asking the wrong question about artificial superintelligence. The current debate fixates on when machines will outthink humans, as if raw cognitive horsepower is the metric that matters. It isn’t. We humans don’t […]