Reframing talent development in the intelligence age: reasoning from first principles

This perspective paper examines how AI is reshaping talent management in the emerging intelligence age, where value creation depends on the ability to interpret, apply, and scale insight. Despite advances in talent analytics, learning, and skills models, current approaches are static and generally misaligned with the dynamic, AI-mediated future of work. We use three lenses–AI as an evolving, permeating, and performance-amplifying force–to investigate how this technology is transforming capability dynamics, decision-making, and performance distribution, while probing the limitations of existing talent practices. We put forward a framework–Assess, Access, Accelerate, and Amplify–that reframes talent management as an integrated approach to capability development.