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What should AI do and what should the human do?
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.
The philosophy and practice of developing human intelligence alongside artificial intelligence so humans become more capable, not less.
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.
INTELLIGENCE ALLOCATION
More than deciding which tasks AI should do
Thinking
Where should each contribute to the thinking?
Judgement
Where must independent human judgement remain active?
Authority
What may be delegated, where must decision rights remain human and who owns the consequences?
Allocate intelligence for performance today and human capability tomorrow.
THE DEVELOPMENT QUESTION
What is AI doing to the work and the human?
Is AI completing the work, improving the work or developing the human?
The strongest allocation does more than produce a better result today. It protects and expands the human capability needed tomorrow.
THE EIGHT DIMENSIONS OF HUMAN CAPABILITY
Human capability is not a single score.
This is the breadth map beneath Human Frontier Thinking™ and Brave New Leader®. It describes the territory humans can develop across as they work alongside increasingly capable machines.
Intellectual
Reasoning, analysing, discerning patterns, testing evidence and understanding complexity.
Emotional
Recognising, understanding and working wisely with emotion, in ourselves and in others.
Creative
Imagining alternatives, generating original possibilities and bringing something new into being.
Somatic
Using the body’s signals, energy and embodied experience as part of awareness and judgement.
Adaptive
Learning, unlearning and responding constructively as conditions change.
Reflective
Making meaning from experience, examining assumptions and turning action into learning.
Relational
Building trust, understanding context, connecting perspectives and creating with other people.
Moral
Judging what should be done, not merely what can be done, and accepting responsibility for consequences.
ACTIVE HUMAN JUDGEMENT
See → Feel → Connect → Synthesise → Decide → Act → Reflect → Learn
A human in the loop is not the same as human judgement in the loop.
The Human Override® preserves active human judgement by keeping capability, authority and accountability aligned.
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
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What should we automate and what must people continue to learn through doing?
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Where is AI improving human judgement and where might it be replacing it?
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Are we using AI to expand curiosity or close questions too quickly?
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Who is accountable when human and artificial intelligence contribute to the same decision?
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What new capabilities could people develop with the time AI releases?
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How will tomorrow’s experts gain experience if today’s developmental work disappears?
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Are we redesigning work or simply removing cost?
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What kind of humans are our systems encouraging people to become?
ONE CONNECTED SYSTEM
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 four 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.”