The Age of Algorithmic Disintermediation

The text, an article by Greg Twemlow, explores the profound threat posed by Algorithmic Disintermediation (AD), which substitutes human professional judgement with scalable computation, leading to an immediate collapse in the value of codifiable expertise. The author argues that this phenomenon has escalated from a corporate risk to a personal emergency for individual specialists, exemplified by the case of the AI actress Tilly Norwood, whose existence highlights the vulnerability of standardised professional tasks to the unbundling effect. To survive this crisis, the article mandates a personal strategic pivot called Re-Intermediation (RI), which requires individuals to shift their value proposition from knowledge delivery to irreplaceable human capabilities such as Trust Brokerage, Synthesis, and Proprietary Integration. Ultimately, professionals must transition to becoming the Architect of Accountability, accepting liability for algorithmic outputs and defining their human value through complex, non-codifiable wisdom rather than simple expertise. Read the article.About the Author - Greg Twemlow writes and teaches at the intersection of technology, education, and human judgment. He works with educators and businesses to make AI explainable and assessable in classrooms and boardrooms — to ensure AI users show their process and own their decisions. His cognition protocol, the Context & Critique Rule™, is built on a three-step process: Evidence → Cognition → Discernment — a bridge from what’s scattered to what’s chosen. Context & Critique → Accountable AI™. © 2025 Greg Twemlow. “Context & Critique → Accountable AI” and “Context & Critique Rule” are unregistered trademarks (™).