Paul Welty, PhD AI, WORK, AND STAYING HUMAN

Artificial-Intelligence: artificial-intelligence

6 posts tagged with "artificial-intelligence"

I keep noticing people talk about AI like it’s a wave that’s about to hit them.

“Will it take my job?” “How do we adopt it fast enough?” “How do we protect ourselves?”

Those are understandable questions. They’re also a little late. If AI can do your job, the problem isn’t the AI. The problem is that your job was never designed to require the human part of you.

Most organizations have spent decades trying to remove judgment from work. Scripts. Processes. Compliance. “Just follow the playbook.” It worked because humans are …

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A lot of people are treating AI like it’s going to replace “thinking.” It won’t.

What it will replace is the comforting illusion that thinking was optional.

AI is great at producing an answer. It’s terrible at taking responsibility for one.

It can generate a strategy, a lesson plan, a policy, a diagnosis. But it can’t own the consequences when the strategy fails, the lesson lands wrong, the policy harms someone, the diagnosis is incomplete.

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