Resilience in the Age of AI
April 2, 2026
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AI Analysis: Glittering Generalities
Stephen Downes, Apr 02, 2026 Three classes of workers will emerge: Those who care, employed in high-touch professions delivering 'hand-holding' care. Those who service, doing the things that aren't yet automated. And those who experience: Today we call such people 'celebrities' and 'influencers,' but there will be an ever-greater need for people to have new experiences to produce new 'content' to enable AIs to keep learning and for the rest of us to react to.
In many ways, experiencers will be aspirational, much like professional athletes are today, but there will be far more opportunities to enjoy similar experiences first-hand. (This is the edited version of my contribution to Building a Human Resilience Infrastructure for the Age of AI: Experts Call for Radical Change Across Institutions, Social Structures - Imagining the Digital Future Center by Lee Rainie and Janna Anderson.) See also on [Original Location] [This Post]
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