Collaborators on the project
Shay Luo
Ex-Kearney Partner & Founder. Combines consulting strategy with AI solutions.
Prof. Inhwa Kim
Assistant Professor of Business at Oregon State University. AI scientist in human-AI interaction and AI in retail.
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THINKBEYONDAI
The best professionals of the next decade won't ignore AI, and they won't trust it blindly either. They will be the ones who define what counts as correct in their field, not in spite of automation but through it.
ThinkBeyondAI exists to support exactly that: understanding how these systems work and recognizing where they fail, so that you remain the standard AI is measured against rather than the one it overtakes.
We study how AI is reshaping professional work and what it means for institutions whose authority rests on human judgment. And we go beyond theory: we show how the tools are used in everyday practice and create learning materials for teams and individuals.
Our work grows out of an international collaboration between students, professors and practitioners. Students bring the questions their future professions have stopped asking. Professors bring methodological rigor. Practitioners bring the reality of everyday work.
Think beyond the forecast.
Featured posts
A Bain partner on where AI has already changed consulting work, which roles it creates, and what he now expects from applicants.
by Carl Erhard, Sep 18, 2026
A field study of a service robot in a campus store found that perceived usefulness and the robot's way of speaking shaped acceptance. That transfers to prompting.
by Carl Erhard, Sep 18, 2026
Bain's consultants have built more than 19,000 custom GPTs, and in the UK the firm says it will hire 25 percent more graduates, not fewer.
by Carl Erhard, Sep 18, 2026
Push a model past a perfect fit on its training data and test error starts falling again. Double descent, and what it did to learning theory.
by Tom Buchholz, Sep 16, 2026
A language model puts a probability on every possible next word, picks one, and runs the calculation again. Everything else follows from that loop.
by Emil Ohligs, Sep 16, 2026
A KKR managing director on where AI lands in a private equity firm, what the deal market looks like, and how to get noticed when applying.
by Emil Ohligs, Sep 16, 2026
Latest posts
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Companies who blindly jump on the hype train, and deploy AI solely through machines, fail to gain value from their investment. Others integrate at the root of a skilled, up to date workforce, and see increasing returns. 95% Forty billion dollars in corporate AI spending has produced little measurable profit.
by Carl Erhard, Jun 19, 2026
Wer die KI-Branche in den vergangenen Jahren beobachtet hat, kennt das Muster: Ein neues Modell erscheint, die Pressemitteilung nennt eine Zahl und diese ist größer als die des Vorgängers. Milliarden Parameter wurden zur Währung des Fortschritts. GPT-4, Gemini Ultra, Claude Opus sind aufgebaut nach der Logik, dass mehr
by Emil Ohligs, Jun 18, 2026
Die Finanzindustrie entdeckt Künstliche Intelligenz nicht, sie kehrt zu ihr zurück. Während KI in der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung als Phänomen der letzten Jahre gilt, arbeiten Risikoabteilungen, Handelsdesks und Kreditinstitute seit Jahrzehnten mit lernenden Systemen. Der Unterschied zwischen einem Kreditscoring-Modell der 1990er Jahre und einem modernen Sprachmodell ist real aber er
by Emil Ohligs, Jun 08, 2026
Künstliche Intelligenz wirkt auf den ersten Blick wie ein neutrales Werkzeug. Eine Nutzerin stellt eine Frage, das System verarbeitet die Eingabe und gibt eine Antwort aus. Doch diese Antwort entsteht nicht in einem wertfreien Raum. Moderne KI-Systeme werden nicht nur darauf trainiert, sprachlich plausible Texte zu erzeugen. Sie werden
by Tom Buchholz, Jun 07, 2026
Was sich aus Bains öffentlicher KI-Strategie über die Zukunft junger Berater:innen ableiten lässt, und warum das jeden Berufseinsteiger betrifft. Bain & Company, eine der drei größten Strategieberatungen weltweit, redet nicht nur über KI. Sie haben ihre mittlerweile über 17.000 Mitarbeitenden mit KI-Tools ausgestattet, über 19.000
by Carl Erhard, May 31, 2026
Agent template: This template aims to assist you in writing a Masterprompt. Masterprompts (a.k.a systemprompts) can be pasted into the “Instructions” tab of a Project from the AI provider of our choice. When we then pose a question/problem in the chat of that Project, the masterprompt leads
by Carl Erhard, May 22, 2026