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Artificial intelligence is becoming remarkably good at producing things. It can research, analyse, draft, summarise and create in seconds what once took hours. But our latest EVOLVE: AI You Can Trust: Leading Responsibly Through Intelligent Transformation conversation with Sharon Gilkes Prior and Ade Shokoya raised a more interesting question. “If access to speed, information and competent-looking output becomes commonplace, what happens to the value of human expertise?”

For women in leadership and particularly Black women, burnout is becoming one of the greatest hidden threats to career progression, organisational innovation and long-term economic participation. As artificial intelligence reshapes workplaces and organisations pursue greater efficiency, conversations about productivity are accelerating. Far fewer discussions focus on who is carrying the human cost of that transformation.

Over the past few years, Black, Asian and ethnically diverse professionals have faced disproportionate levels of job insecurity, redundancy and career instability. Research from organisations including the TUC, McKinsey and the UK Government’s Race Disparity Unit has repeatedly shown that ethnically diverse employees are more likely to experience insecure work, less likely to feel psychologically safe at work and more likely to fear negative consequences when speaking up abou