With artificial intelligence, knowledge becomes worthless

In one of his interviews, Raoul Paul, co-founder and CEO of Real Vision, a world-renowned financial knowledge and education platform, said that AI will officially make knowledge worthless and that this technology is the greatest human invention to date.

Paul, who was previously head of European hedge fund sales at Goldman Sachs, said in an interview with The Diary of a CEO podcast that artificial intelligence is the greatest human invention and the only thing that can rival it is probably splitting the nucleus of an atom. But a part of his interview about the importance of knowledge and its relation to artificial intelligence has attracted more attention from users on social networks.

Artificial intelligence can reduce the value of knowledge to zero

Raoul Paul claims that the reason why lawyers and similar professions earn a lot of money is because knowledge is scarce; In fact, knowledge that few people can achieve. Paul says that artificial intelligence is infinite intelligence and has made the value of knowledge to zero, and this will change all economic models.

Fields such as law, medicine, consulting and finance are becoming commoditized, he says. If ChatGPT, Geminai or Claude can extract legal citations, medical research or market data in seconds, why pay a fortune for knowledge?

Supporters of this view believe that conservation-based expertise is already collapsing. Large language models can provide summaries, case studies, drug interactions and company revenue analysis instantly and for free.

But this view has its own critics. Customers don’t just pay for information. They pay for judgment under pressure, lived experience, ethical decision-making, and someone who takes responsibility with their signature when things go wrong. Perhaps the real change is this: the value of conservation will decrease, but the value of implementation and accountability will increase. If information is cheap, your competitive advantage will be taste, timing, and accountability.