In the April 2026 session of the Detroit Regional Chamber’s AI Office Hour series, Chamber Board Member and Founder and Chief Executive Officer at REBRANDX, Hajj Flemings, hosted a session describing the human aspect of the ever-changing world of AI. Consistent with many AI experts, Flemings explains to attendees that AI expertise is becoming increasingly important for remaining competitive across all fields of work.
Watch the full event recording below.
While discussing how AI is changing the workforce, Flemings emphasizes the importance of having this intelligence embedded into the fabric of your organization. It can be so easy to use large language models (LLMs) to complete tasks for you, but these tools become more useful to you and your organization when you learn to leverage agents and train the technology.
“It’s not just going to be, ‘We’re going to go and get subscriptions to ChatGPT and a series of other platforms.’ It is going to be the integration into the infrastructure of the organization that you run,” Flemings says. “These systems are embedded into the very fabric of the organization that you’re running.”
Oftentimes, AI also requires facilitation or oversight, and when you give the technology a knowledge base, it leaves room for you to do tasks only humans can do and to foster parts of the organization, like relationship-building.
“There are things that are going to be very repeatable, mindless types of tasks that are automated, that are not really complex. You want the machine to work on those because you’re never going to beat the machine at speed,” Flemings explained. “These things that don’t require a lot of human oversight, you want to give those things to the machine so you can really bring your genius to what you do and the insight that you have.”
As AI continues to grow and becomes vital to many organizations, a shared fear among workers is that technology is becoming too advanced and will take their jobs.
“The reality is we all have to get comfortable with being uncomfortable, and we have to get used to how this technology is going to impact the future of work,” he explained.
While the idea of such intelligent technology can be unsettling, there are simply things that humans do that AI can’t. Flemings uses the concept of Speed (AI) vs. Craft (Human) to describe the human component of AI use. While humans can’t work at the speed of this technology, mobilizing brand voice, creativity, and expertise in your field of work is where AI falls short.
“You really have to think about ‘what is the thing you have deep domain knowledge for and that you love doing, and figure out how you put your imprint on it to where it’s different,” Flemings said.
In closing, Flemings encourages attendees to move toward understanding intelligence and applying it in a way that works for their organization. You don’t have to fight for your job against AI; you should leverage AI to do your job more efficiently.
“When I look at the future … we believe in human-centered AI,” he said.
