I agree with you that the role of IT will change over the next years, it’s in the nature of things to change when confronted with disruptive technologies, though IT as everybody’s business seems to be questionable. Governance, data security, data analytics can and must be transported into the business and allow non-IT people to participate but thinking that IT will become the business itself is an overstatement. There are and there will be limits to an average person’s understanding of what concerns IT topics. Moreover, there is also a time constraint.

AI is an enabler and will help to create solutions for organizations’ challenges. It has great potential, though it also has important limits, and the most important one is the one of accountability. Humanity doesn’t afford to renounce to accountability, and because of this it will take time until AI will make decisions on its own. AI can devise a plan or recommend something based on the information it was provided, it may even make discoveries and integrate them, though it will depend on humans to validate and take accountability.

Don’t forget that the current capabilities of OpenAI-like technologies are based on large language models or similar models that generate statements and not an actual thinking machine.