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One of the biggest shifts I have witnessed in my lifetime is that we’ve gradually come to value knowledge more highly than judgement. Somewhere along the way, we stopped talking about the importance of good judgement and instead began placing greater emphasis on credentials and qualifications.

Job advertisements are a good example. They are often filled with minimum qualification requirements, yet say very little about the character, values, wisdom or judgement needed to do the role well.

The rapid progress of AI is beginning to challenge that imbalance. Knowledge is becoming increasingly accessible to everyone, which means the qualities that truly differentiate us are no longer what we know, but how we think, how we exercise judgement, and how we make decisions.

Perhaps AI will remind us that judgement has always been more valuable than knowledge alone.

Essential skills for the future

My proposal: ban all closed-weight, closed-source AI models. Instead, let’s build one global open-weight model, a joint project for all of humanity, developed transparently and governed collectively. This is the only way forward for a better world, for all. #OneAI

Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO) is the practice of structuring content so that AI-powered platforms (such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google Gemini) can confidently understand, summarise, reference, and recommend your organisation. While traditional Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) has historically focused on keywords, backlinks, and search rankings, GEO places greater emphasis on clarity, semantic structure, factual accuracy, authority, and machine-readable content.

The reality, however, is that effective SEO has always incorporated many of these principles. High-quality content, logical information architecture, structured data, clear headings, authoritative sources, and a strong user experience have long been recognised as the foundations of sustainable search performance.

So, if your marketing agency has suddenly started talking to you about GEO as though it is an entirely new discipline, it is worth asking a simple question:

“If these are now considered essential practices for AI search, what exactly have you been doing since the web was invented?”

GEO is less a revolution than it is the next stage in the evolution of good SEO. Organisations that have invested in producing authoritative, well-structured, trustworthy content are already well positioned for AI-powered search. The businesses most at risk are those whose SEO strategies relied on shortcuts, keyword stuffing, and gaming search algorithms rather than creating genuinely useful information.

Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO) – exposing who was doing SEO properly all along