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HI:AI®

What could humans become when AI is everywhere?

AI is changing what machines can do. HI:AI® explores what humans could become because of it.

A human-development framework bringing together the skills, mindset, thinking and leadership needed to create a wiser relationship between human and artificial intelligence.

HI:AI

THE BIGGEST OPPORTUNITY OF THE AI ERA MAY NOT BE AI

What happens to human intelligence when increasingly capable artificial intelligence becomes part of everyday life?

Do we become more curious or more dependent? Do we develop better judgement or simply accept increasingly convincing answers? Do we create more or gradually forget how to begin without a prompt?

AI is not only changing how work gets done. It is changing the conditions in which humans think, learn, develop and become.

HUMAN INTELLIGENCE : ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Partnership, not competition.

AI brings speed, scale, processing power, pattern recognition and extraordinary access to knowledge.

Humans bring meaning, imagination, embodied experience, emotion, relationships, moral judgement and responsibility for consequences.

AI raises the floor.
Humans must raise the ceiling.

The future will belong to people who can think, learn, adapt and create better than ever before, alongside AI.

MORE THAN AI SKILLS

Four developmental areas, held together

01

Skills

Frame questions, prompt, interrogate outputs, test assumptions and recognise limitations.

02

Mindset

Experiment, learn and unlearn as familiar assumptions stop holding.

03

Thinking

Use AI without outsourcing attention, intention or judgement.

04

Leadership

Decide where AI belongs, where humans remain essential and how people continue to gain experience.

THE EIGHT DIMENSIONS OF HUMAN INTELLIGENCE

Human capability is not a single score.

HI:AI® deliberately broadens the idea of intelligence. The integration of all eight dimensions, and responsibility for how they are used, remains profoundly human.

01

Intellectual

Reasoning, analysing, discerning patterns, testing evidence and understanding complexity.

02

Emotional

Recognising, understanding and working wisely with emotion, in ourselves and in others.

03

Creative

Imagining alternatives, generating original possibilities and bringing something new into being.

04

Somatic

Using the body’s signals, energy and embodied experience as part of awareness and judgement.

05

Adaptive

Learning, unlearning and responding constructively as conditions change.

06

Reflective

Making meaning from experience, examining assumptions and turning action into learning.

07

Relational

Building trust, understanding context, connecting perspectives and creating with other people.

08

Moral

Judging what should be done, not merely what can be done, and accepting responsibility for consequences.

PROTECTING THE HUMAN THINKING CYCLE

See Consider Process Decide Act Reflect Learn

When AI can answer almost anything, who or what is shaping what humans notice, want and choose?

The aim is to retain human ownership of attention, intention, judgement, agency, accountability and learning.

WHAT MUST HUMANS CONTINUE TO PRACTISE?

Judgement develops through attempting, observing, getting things wrong, noticing consequences, reflecting and trying again.

If AI takes over the activity through which people once developed expertise, where will future experts get their repetitions?

If junior roles disappear, where will future leaders acquire perspective? If every difficult question is answered instantly, how will people learn to stay with uncertainty?

“Who owns the consequences three years later?”

QUESTIONS FOR THE HI:AI® ERA

01

What should we automate and what must people continue to learn through doing?

02

Where is AI improving human judgement and where might it be replacing it?

03

Are we using AI to expand curiosity or close questions too quickly?

04

Who is accountable when human and artificial intelligence contribute to the same decision?

05

What new capabilities could people develop with the time AI releases?

06

How will tomorrow’s experts gain experience if today’s developmental work disappears?

07

Are we redesigning work or simply removing cost?

08

What kind of humans are our systems encouraging people to become?

ONE CONNECTED SYSTEM

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DISCOVER YOUR HUMAN FRONTIER

How prepared are you to keep developing when knowledge is abundant and established expertise is no longer enough?

The Human Frontier Thinking™ Diagnostic gives you a place to begin.

Take the HFT Diagnostic

THIS IS HUMAN-DEVELOPMENT WORK

Carol has spent more than three decades with people, leaders and organisations at the point where old answers stop working.

Her starting belief is simple: there is more inside people than they know. Disruption can reveal new capability instead of merely making existing capability obsolete.

HI:AI® brings that belief into the defining change of our time. It asks how increasingly capable machines can be met by continually developing humans.

The human future is not something AI will decide for us.

It will be shaped by what we choose to automate, what we continue to practise, what we remain responsible for and what we decide humans could become next.

“Stop outsourcing what makes you irreplaceable.”