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Paul Welty, PhD AI, WORK, AND STAYING HUMAN

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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

Nobody takes you aside anymore

Print taught a generation when to stop. What we lose when the machines absorb the constraints that used to form us.

Your AI agents need a water cooler

Coordination is a property of the room, not the org chart. What that means when your coworkers are agents.

On the death of the author and the birth of the detector

Why worrying about AI authorship is lazier, and more prejudiced, than it looks.

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.

Did the state change? A simple test for whether work actually happened

Either something exists now that did not exist before, or it does not. A simple test for whether work actually happened, and what changes when you build your systems so they can't record anything else.

How to manage content for multiple clients without flattening their voices

How to manage content for multiple clients without their voices blurring into one house style: a workspace and a voice profile per client, batchable stages, and approval buffers.

Why does AI writing sound generic? It has nothing to work with

Why does AI writing sound generic? Because the model has none of your perspective, examples, constraints, or stakes to work with. The fix is interview-first, not better adjectives.

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.