If nobody owns AI in learning, AI owns your learners. Earlier this week I showed you structural exclusion in a music festival lineup: 70% male headliners across five years. Small decisions repeated over time created a big pattern. The same thing is now happening with AI in European workplaces, especially financial services, where small procurement… Read More Someone else’s problem
Nick Davies at Thinqi has written a thoughtful piece on why L&D feels broken heading into 2026. His central argument: HR and L&D operate as separate functions when they should be one unified capability aligned to organisational outcomes. He’s right that this fragmentation isn’t new. What’s changed is that AI has made the conversation urgent… Read More Beyond Integration
I see a lot of lists about what AI could do in L&D but not many about what’s actually happening. On 𝟭𝟰 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿, as part of the Learning Technologies Autumn Forum, Don Taylor and Eglė Vinauskaitė will share their latest research: How L&D is using AI today – and what it means for the future.… Read More The Truth About AI in Learning
I was in a conversation recently when someone described me as an AI expert. I’m not and – more importantly – I don’t want to be. The only reason it came up was because my use of LLM tools was ahead of theirs. It reminded me of a great joke:Apparently the Queen thought the world… Read More An AI expert
If you regularly read what I write on a regular basis it’s likely that you also keep up with what’s happening elsewhere in the world of work, learning, and technology. If you follow these strands you’ll be seeing stories about AI and the question being raised about whether the AI bubble is bursting, dying, failing,… Read More The wrong question
Lost and Desperate 