Source: The Leverage
The article identifies a structural shift: as frontier AI labs (OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind) demonstrate capabilities faster than institutions can adapt, they've become de facto arbiters of what counts as valuable human skills. Parents, educators, and employers now react to lab announcements rather than act proactively—scrambling to forecast which jobs, knowledge domains, and competencies will matter in 18 months, when the next capability jump lands. This inversion of power (from institutions setting the agenda to labs setting it) concentrates enormous influence over human capital decisions in a handful of private entities that optimize for capabilities, not equity or social stability.