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Paul Welty, PhD AI, WORK, AND STAYING HUMAN

Top 14 chatbot building platforms of 2017

Discover the top 14 chatbot building platforms of 2017 to enhance customer experiences and streamline digital workplaces effectively.

Chatbots are becoming more commonplace on platforms like Facebook messenger, Slack, Whatsapp and even within company websites and apps. Some brands are leveraging chatbots to enhance customer experiences, while others are deploying them in-house to shape up their digital workplaces….

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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 file I almost made twice

A small operational footgun that runs everywhere — building a parallel system when the one you have is fine.

The actor doesn't get to be the verifier

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.

Article analysis: Maximizing organizational productivity: Analyzing ai’’s transformative potential

Unlock the potential of AI to enhance efficiency, streamline processes, and boost productivity in your organization with actionable insights and real-world...

AI didn’t deskill us, we were already deskilled

This article challenges the narrative that AI is deskilling workers, instead highlighting how many jobs were already mechanical. It offers a thought-provoking perspective on how AI could be an opportunity to reclaim and enhance human skills.

Is automation the key to organizational resilience?

Discover how automation enhances organizational resilience while emphasizing the vital role of human creativity in driving true innovation.