Can an "average" person change the world using AI?

People often talk about how AI is democratizing innovation, but rarely look at the psychological reality of what that could mean. Let's say a person had a world-changing idea for a complex system or a breakthrough application, but they were stopped by massive barriers, such as a lack of coding expertise or the need for millions in capital. Today, a single individual with a laptop can leverage AI to handle the technical heavy lifting, effectively acting as the director of a massive digital crew. This shifts the bottleneck of innovation entirely away from technical execution and places it squarely on vision, structural design, and deep domain knowledge. It means the next massive global breakthrough could easily come from someone outside the traditional tech elite. But if someone actually pulls this off, it opens up a massive internal conflict regarding authorship and success. When a machine writes the code and optimizes the frameworks, the creator is bound to feel a severe sense of imposter syndrome. They might look at their world-changing creation and feel like a fraud who simply typed the right prompts into a text box. The real debate is whether we are entering an era of accidental geniuses who feel like permanent impostors, or if mastering the vision and guiding the machine is a legitimate form of modern genius in its own right. If you forced the world to change based on a vision that wasn't yours alone to build, does the achievement belong to the mind that saw the destination, or the machine that paved the road?