---
id: "claim-ai-myopia"
type: "claim"
source_timestamps: ["¶ 1", "§ The Era of Living Intelligence"]
tags: ["strategy", "risk-management"]
related: ["concept-living-intelligence", "contrarian-ai-is-not-the-end", "quote-starting-line", "framework-living-intelligence-positioning"]
confidence: "high"
testable: true
speakers: ["Amy Webb"]
sources: ["futures"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-futures"
originDay: 2
articleStem: "hbr-foci-73-living-intelligence"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2025/01/why-living-intelligence-is-the-next-big-thing"
sourceTitle: "Why “Living Intelligence” Is the Next Big Thing"
---
# Corporate fixation on LLMs is a strategic vulnerability

**Claim (confidence: high · testable):** Executive teams who believe they have completed their technological transformation by successfully deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) are dangerously mistaken. LLMs are merely the *"starting line"* (see [[quote-starting-line]]).

Companies that fixate solely on AI as it exists today — without recognizing the convergence of AI with [[concept-advanced-sensors|advanced sensors]] and biotechnology into [[concept-living-intelligence|Living Intelligence]] — risk missing a massive wave of disruption and being left behind by competitors who build a *muscle for continuous transformation*. This is the practical stakes of the contrarian position [[contrarian-ai-is-not-the-end]], and the motivation for the [[framework-living-intelligence-positioning|5-step positioning framework]].

> *Enrichment assessment:* **Supported as a strategic argument, not as a settled empirical fact.** Webb explicitly frames LLM deployment as "just the starting line," and secondary coverage repeats the framing. But this is a *foresight* claim, not a falsifiable present-day finding; the supporting material is expository/promotional rather than peer-reviewed or econometric. Note the counter-perspective that LLMs and foundation models remain the near-term economic center of gravity.


## Related across articles
- [[claim-ai-productivity-enabler]]
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## Related across articles
- [[claim-ai-productivity-enabler]]
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