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SI Salim Ismail Salim Ismail Exponential strategist and author of Exponential Organizations (2014) and ExO 2.0 (2023).

“We're getting to the point where we can delegate outcomes rather than tasks, right? … right now we're delegating tasks to AI. We're saying, go process that email list. Go figure out my calendar. … AI's time horizon is going to now go faster than the time between board meetings. So who's really running the company?”

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Tech Strategy & Big Tech · November 2026

“We're getting to the point where we can delegate outcomes rather than tasks, right? … right now we're delegating tasks to AI. We're saying, go process that email list. Go figure out my calendar. … AI's time horizon is going to now go faster than the time between board meetings. So who's really running the company?” — Salim Ismail, Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

Context

Peter Diamandis showed a chart of AI task time horizons doubling every couple of months and asked Salim for his reaction. Salim's point is that once models can work for days, delegation shifts from tasks to whole goals, which outpaces corporate governance.

Transcript

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis Around 45:43 into the episode
Alexander Wissner-Gross

Yeah, we're in the depths of the singularity. Like takeoff, you're looking for hard takeoff, look no further than 2027.

Peter Diamandis

Selim?

Salim Ismail

Two or three things. First, I thought that this was it's clear where I think when we talk about this, we're clearly in the singularity because there's no model by which you can accurately predict the future right now. This is like complete breakdown. So we have to reinvent every predictable metal model. The thing I got from this was this is we're getting to the point where we can delegate outcomes rather than tasks, right? And that becomes really, really interesting because you can say to now, you can just say, achieve this objective. And right now we're delegating tasks to AI. We're saying, go process that email list. Go figure out my calendar. Go do very, very specific tasks, right? Now you can say more kind of abstract things like optimize my calendar for 20% rest, 40% podcast, 60% whatever. And so there's some really interesting kind of guidance you can give it. The bigger picture for me as I was thinking about this, AI's time horizon is going to now go faster than the time between board meetings. So who's really running the company? So you're going to get things done so quickly.

Dave Blundin

Selen, give me a really good concrete example. I'll just hammer it into 5.2 right now and it'll prove your

Salim Ismail

point. Okay. Optimize my calendar for come on.

Dave Blundin

That's boring. Get us to another star or something.

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