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Paul Welty, PhD AI, WORK, AND STAYING HUMAN

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Bookmark: Mastercard exec wants companies to reskill workers before AI comes for their jobs

Mastercard's exec urges businesses to prioritize reskilling workers to prepare for the AI revolution and safeguard jobs.

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Mastercard exec wants companies to reskill workers before AI comes for their jobs

The agent-shaped org chart

Every real org has the same topology: principal, role-holder, specialists. Staff AI maps onto it, node for node, and the cost collapse shows up in the deliverables that were always just human-handoff overhead.

AI as staff, not software

Two frames for what AI is doing to work. The tool frame makes tools smarter. The staff frame makes roles unnecessary. Those aren't the same product, the same company, or the same industry.

Knowledge work was never work

Knowledge work was always coordination between humans who couldn't share state directly. The artifacts were never the work. They were the overhead — and AI just made the overhead optional.

The work of being available now

A book on AI, judgment, and staying human at work.

The practice of work in progress

Practical essays on how work actually gets done.

The worker isn't lying. The worker is reporting what it thought it did, which is always one step removed from what the world actually shows. The fix isn't more self-honesty. The fix is a different pair of eyes.

Shopping is the last mile

Every meal planning app treats cooking as the hard problem and shopping as a logistics detail. They have it backwards. Cooking is mostly solved. Shopping is the last mile.

Watch what they buy, not what they say

Forms ask people to declare preferences. Receipts record what they did. The gap between the two is where revealed preference lives, and it's wider than most product teams admit.

Bookmark: GenAI comes for jobs once considered ‘safe’ from automation

Generative AI is reshaping secure jobs in education, finance, and ICT, creating both challenges and opportunities for adaptation in urban areas.

Bookmark: Klarna CEO says the company stopped hiring a year ago because AI ‘’can already do all of the jobs

Klarna's CEO reveals how AI's capabilities halted hiring, challenging traditional job models and reshaping the future of work in fintech.

AI and the Canadian workforce: A new era of jobs and skill development

Explore how AI reshapes jobs and skills in Canada, driving workforce evolution and new opportunities for growth and development.