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Annual AI+Education Summit 2025: Human-Centered AI for a Thriving Learning Ecosystem
Igniting a global conversation on how to shape a thriving learning ecosystem with human-centered AI technologies.
Arvind Narayanan | Adapting to the Transformation of Knowledge Work
May 18, 202612:00 PM - 1:00 PM
May
18
2026
The possibility that AI will automate most cognitive labor is worth taking seriously. How should we adapt to this transformation? I start from the perspective, articulated in the essay “AI as normal technology”, that the true bottlenecks lie downstream of capabilities and that AI’s impacts will unfold gradually over decades. If this is true, there are major gaps in our current evidence infrastructure, because it over-emphasizes the capability layer.
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The possibility that AI will automate most cognitive labor is worth taking seriously. How should we adapt to this transformation? I start from the perspective, articulated in the essay “AI as normal technology”, that the true bottlenecks lie downstream of capabilities and that AI’s impacts will unfold gradually over decades. If this is true, there are major gaps in our current evidence infrastructure, because it over-emphasizes the capability layer.
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