What you know that AI doesn’t | Priyanka Vergadia

Human collaboration with artificial intelligence serves as the essential strategy for navigating modern job displacement anxieties. While algorithms excel at identifying data patterns and optimizing for raw engagement, they lack the capacity to understand context, intent, and unspoken emotions derived from lived experience. Real-world applications demonstrate these limitations: a product manager diagnosed a "why" behind low feature adoption that data missed, a sales lead identified organizational restructuring through subtle social cues ignored by predictive tools, and a brand strategist shifted from AI-driven follower growth to community-building to drive actual revenue. Success in an automated future depends on "questioning the question" and reading the room rather than just the dashboard. Technologist Priyanka Vergadia argues that by focusing on empathy and the qualitative meaning behind quantitative data, professionals remain irreplaceably human and more effective than AI alone.