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Artificial Intelligence Isn’t the Problem. Human Intelligence Is.
The most important thing facing us at work right now is not artificial intelligence (AI). It is the fact that the modern world has become more complex than human intelligence can manage unaided. AI did not create this condition. AI emerged because the world crosses a complexity threshold that human intelligence could no longer handle on its own, so we (humans collectively) did what we do best – we invented a machine to help us. The world has outpaced how humans naturally

Russell Fitzpatrick, PhD
Feb 54 min read


In an AI-Enhanced World, Employee Success Depends on Career Architecture and Cognitive Development
Organizations invest a great deal of time and care in building career architecture, work I’m engaged in right now. Clear job families, defined levels, transparent competencies, and visible pathways provide essential orientation in complex institutions. Increasingly, these frameworks are supported by AI-enhanced talent systems that help surface skills, align competencies, personalize learning, and make career information more accessible and actionable. Career architecture, esp

Russell Fitzpatrick, PhD
Jan 213 min read


AI Is Accelerating. Human Development Isn’t. That’s the Risk.
As the U.S. rolls out an AI Action Plan [1] , an important first step in recognizing AI as a national capability with direct implications for workforce development and education, prominent voices across the AI spectrum are debating the risks of “Superintelligence”. Some, like the Future of Life Institute , argue for strong limits or prohibitions [2] . Others push back against those constraints. Regardless of that debate, the conversation once again frames AI as the sole obj

Russell Fitzpatrick, PhD
Jan 74 min read
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