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From disruption to reinvention: How knowledge workers can thrive after AI


We are beginning a cognitive migration: Away from what AI now does well, and toward a redefinition of what humans are now made for.

A behavioral study published in Harvard Business Review found that, while workers became more productive using AI tools, they also reported feeling less motivated and more bored when transitioning to tasks that did not involve the technology. In Gish Jen’s novel The Resisters, life in a future automated world is still stitched together by acts of human care and resilience: knitting sweaters, sharing meals, reading Melville aloud to a family. Our cognitive migration finds its destination not in competing with machines on levels of intelligence, but in rediscovering the unique human capacity to care about outcomes in ways that arise from our embodied, social and ethical nature.

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