Citrini Research’s provocative 2028 scenario envisions AI agents so capable and cheap that they trigger a “Human Intelligence Displacement Spiral” — companies replace workers to cut costs, destroying the consumer spending that sustains their own revenues.

India’s IT services sector, built on cost-effective human talent, faces existential risk as coding agents replicate entire teams in days.

SaaS moats collapse as enterprises build in-house, friction-based business models dissolve under 24/7 AI optimization, and traditional monetary policy proves powerless against structural labour displacement.

VentureBean’s perspective reframes this macro crisis as a leadership imperative: founders must pivot from selling human hours to delivering irreplaceable, AI-augmented outcomes — and that requires reskilling executive teams for strategic vision, emotional intelligence, and radical organizational redesign starting today.

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