We know how to transform technology, but have we forgotten how humans transform?
We’ve become remarkably good at transforming technology. We know how to automate, scale, reskill, redesign workflows and launch new systems, but we are much less prepared for what transformation does to the human being inside the system.
When expertise shifts, roles change and familiar ways of working disappear, people are not just learning new tools. They may be losing identity, confidence, meaning and a sense of place.
Anthropology, psychology and spiritual traditions all remind us that real transformation needs more than training. It needs endings, liminal space, reflection, practice, community, imagination and time.
So perhaps the question of the AI age is not only:
How do we prepare humans for intelligent machines?
But:
How do we accompany human beings through transformation without losing the very capacities that make us human?
I explore that in my latest article.
