Paul Welty, PhD AI, WORK, AND STAYING HUMAN

Personalized learning

Personalized learning
Discover how personalized learning through AI tutors can transform education by tailoring experiences to individual learner needs.

Seems inevitable, but I wonder how to actually do this.

“AI tutors will be personalised – tailored to the needs of individual learners.”

GPT-4 And Education. With Donald Clark

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Featured writing

When your brilliant idea meets organizational reality: a survival guide

Transform your brilliant tech ideas into reality by navigating organizational challenges and overcoming hidden resistance with this essential survival guide.

Server-Side Dashboard Architecture: Why Moving Data Fetching Off the Browser Changes Everything

How choosing server-side rendering solved security, CORS, and credential management problems I didn't know I had.

AI as Coach: Transforming Professional and Continuing Education

Transform professional and continuing education with AI-driven coaching, offering personalized support, accountability, and skill mastery at scale.

Books

The Work of Being (in progress)

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

The Practice of Work (in progress)

Practical essays on how work actually gets done.

Recent writing

The bully pulpit: why AI slop only matters to people who write about AI slop

This article exposes how the 'AI moral crisis' narrative is amplified by the very people who control media—and why the 90% of workers actually using AI don't share the panic.

Why your job matters more than mine: the selective morality of job loss

This article reveals the uncomfortable pattern behind which jobs get moral protection and which get called 'market forces'—and what that means for everyone outside the creative class.

AI in writing: the end of a professional monopoly

This article reframes the AI writing debate: the panic isn't about creativity—it's about a professional class losing control of the systems they've gatekept for a century.

Notes and related thinking

Rethinking AI Impact on Job Market

Explore how AI's unpredictable evolution shapes the job market, challenging the notion of steering technology for worker protection.

Job displacement by AI

Explore the impact of AI on job displacement, highlighting real stories of workers replaced by technology and the future of employment.

The Power of Executive Assistants

Unlock the potential of executive assistants to enhance school leadership effectiveness and drive impactful meetings forward.