AI in learning & education, the rise of AI anxiety, driving AI adoption, and more...

September 08, 2025

“Machines can never replace the human spirit.” — Ada Lovelace

Strategic foresight workshop and AI in learning & education

I’ll be travelling this week to run two full-day workshops on Strategic Foresight as part of a leadership development program. The intention, as always, is to build broader, richer thinking to inform better leadership and decision-making.

In Humans + AI Explorers Community we have launched a new AI in Learning & Education space, it is already active and we will be diving deep. More below in the update on the latest in the community.

Be well!

Ross

 

📖In this issue

  • Framework: Humans + AI Investment Decision-Making

  • Humans + AI update: AI driving leadership development, the rise of AI anxiety and the state of AI impact on jobs.

  • From Humans + AI Explorers Community: Live events on enterprise AI adoption, Think > Operate > Apply framework, AI in learning & education.

  • Humans + AI Podcast: Brian Kropp on AI adoption, intrinsic incentives, identifying pain points, and organizational redesign

💡Framework: Humans + AI Investment Decision-Making

All investment decision-making will be either AI only or Humans + AI. For a long time to come most investment decisions will involve humans, especially larger, longer-term, and strategic decisions. Even outside those domains there will often be superior performance from well-architected Humans + AI decision workflows. This is a very high-level summary, I’ll share more details down the track.

🧠🤖Humans + AI

AI in leadership development

"In a two-way information exchange, AI is fed an organization’s domain-specific knowledge and humans access AI-generated learning resources based on that knowledge. AI systems learn from human inputs, improving over time, while humans gain insights from AI-generated data.”

The rise of AI anxiety

If AI is the defining shift of our time, we need to face a hard truth: too many people are anxious, exhausted, or embarrassed about keeping up with the pace of AI.

Will AI take jobs? Analysis of the latest data by Noah Smith

“The debate over whether AI is taking people’s jobs may or may not last forever. If AI takes a lot of people’s jobs, the debate will end because one side will have clearly won. But if AI doesn’t take a lot of people’s jobs, then the debate will never be resolved, because there will be a bunch of people who will still go around saying that it’s about to take everyone’s job.”

🌐From Humans + AI Explorers Community

Selected highlights from Humans + AI Explorers Community (content for members, free membership options).

We have launched a new AI in Learning & Education space led by Dan Bashaw, which will look at all aspects of how AI drives learning, changes and enables learning, and impacts education.

Ali MacDonald shared an excellent framework for AI-Augmented Work: Think > Operate > Apply, generated an insightful discussion.

And far more!

🎙️This week’s podcast episode

Brian Kropp on AI adoption, intrinsic incentives, identifying pain points, and organizational redesign  

Why you should listen

Brian Kropp has extensive experience in organizational and work performance, bringing pointed real-world insights to bear on how best to drive AI adoption.

Thanks for reading!

Ross Dawson and team