All learning is human
AI will never change that.
Hi, it’s Brian.
There’s this myth going around that AI is going to transform or even replace Learning & Development in our organizations. This idea has even made its way into conversations I’ve been having with Chief People Officers, and it needs to be addressed.
Today’s piece is about the future of learning and dispelling some of the misconceptions currently running rampant. If learning within your organization—or even your own learning and growth—is important to you, this is for you.
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My new course just wrapped up its first cohort, and it’s packed with new frameworks and methodologies I’m willing to guarantee you haven’t seen before. If you join the first session and don’t agree, we will issue you a full refund.
Here’s what one of the recent students (a VP at Visa) shared about their experience:
“At a moment when organizations are under enormous pressure to respond to AI without a clear sense of direction, Brian’s Future Solving methodology offers exactly what’s missing: a rigorous, human-centered way to start with vision and work backwards — solving for the future rather than just reacting to it as it arrives. This course changes how you think — about strategy, about how to communicate ideas, and about the systems you’re trying to change. For any leader trying to create the future rather than just react to the moment, this course is essential.”
I used to teach eight-year-old children how to play chess blindfolded. Now I teach senior executives about Future Solving (more on that in another article coming soon). In every stage of my life, I’ve been voraciously learning or teaching others.
The concept of learning is largely unexamined, and on the surface, when running through an organization with the “Let’s-AIify-It” hammer, Learning & Development could seem like a good opportunity to save money and even improve outcomes. It’ll be personalized, right? Can’t the AI can just tailor the learning to each individual person? Without further examination, this sounds ideal.
Here’s why it isn’t:
1. Learning isn’t just about access to information
Being able to ask AI anything is nice, but we don’t learn through genie-style prompting (especially from a system that hallucinates and is designed to guess what we want to hear).
Think about the most important lessons you’ve learned in your life. When, where, and how did you learn it?
…is even one of them something you learned from ChatGPT or Claude?
