Paul Welty, PhD AI, WORK, AND STAYING HUMAN

Writing

I write about work, judgment, technology, and what it means to stay human as work changes.

Some of this becomes books. Some becomes essays. Some is thinking out loud.

Featured writing

When teaching stops being bounded

AI removes the constraints that gave teaching its shape—one teacher, thirty students, limited time. But lifting constraints doesn't make the work easier. It makes it different. Teachers trained for a bounded classroom now face an unbounded role that requires judgment, discernment, and presence in ways we haven't yet mapped.

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.

Books

The Work of Being (available now)

A Philosopher's Guide to Becoming Human in the AI Era

The Practice of Work (in progress)

Practical essays on how work actually gets done.

Recent writing

Dev reflection - January 28, 2026

So here's something I've been sitting with lately. There's this gap—a subtle one—between a system that's running and a system that's actually working. And I don't mean broken versus not broken. I m...

Textorium is live on the App Store

Textorium launches on Mac App Store - a native editor for Hugo, Jekyll & Eleventy that manages hundreds of posts with table views and smart filtering.

Dev reflection - January 27, 2026

So here's something I've been sitting with this week. I've been building systems that generate content—podcast scripts, social media posts, that kind of thing—and almost immediately after getting t...