Research pulse · R1
One study from this field
In a preregistered experiment with 453 professionals, ChatGPT reduced the time needed for midlevel writing tasks by 40% and improved rated quality by 18%.
AI-Readiness
Find out how ready you are — and what to strengthen
AI-Readiness is not tool fluency. It is the ability to think, choose, collaborate and stay well while technology changes around us.
AI-Readiness begins with human capability
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Skill profiles
Definitions, behaviors and progressions.
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Capabilities
Interconnected capability areas.
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Stages
A progression from beginning to mastery.
The goal is not to compete with AI at everything. The goal is to become more capable of using it without giving away judgment, agency or responsibility.
How to read a research claim
- 01Who was studied? And are they enough like you for it to transfer?
- 02What was actually measured? Speed, quality, confidence and retention are different things, and studies often measure the easiest one.
- 03Compared to what? A result with no control, or a weak one, is a description rather than a finding.
- 04How long after? Almost everything works immediately. Ask what survived a month.
- 05Who else found it? One study is a hypothesis. A replication is evidence. A meta-analysis is a conversation.
Research on human skills, AI capabilities and future-readiness is expanding quickly, and some of what looks settled today will not be in a year. Reading two papers that disagree teaches you more than reading one that agrees with you.
Six capabilities, one system
02A tool skill becomes future-ready only when it is connected to judgment, context and responsible action.
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AI Fluency
Understand and direct
Learn the skills that build it →Critical Thinking
Question and verify
Learn the skills that build it →Learning Agility
Learn and unlearn
Learn the skills that build it →Connection
Listen and build trust
Learn the skills that build it →Resilience
Regulate and recover
Learn the skills that build it →Adaptability
Adjust and transfer
Learn the skills that build it →AI fluency is one node inside a human-led capability network. AI-Readiness comes from the quality of the connections.
Discernment before acceleration
03Fast output is useful only after the question, evidence and consequence have been made visible.
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Frame
State the real question, intended outcome and who may be affected.
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Source
Ask what evidence is needed and where reliable information should come from.
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Challenge
Search for gaps, counterexamples, bias and alternative interpretations.
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Verify
Check important claims using independent sources, calculations or expertise.
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Decide
Make the choice yourself and record why the result is good enough for this context.
Use AI without shrinking your skill
04The six-step personal protocol
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Attempt
Make a first pass yourself. Define what you know, assume and need.
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Ask
Give AI a role and constraints. Request options, questions or critique rather than instant closure.
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Interrogate
Ask what could be wrong, missing, culturally narrow or overconfident.
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Explain
Restate the reasoning in your own words without looking at the output.
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Apply
Choose, adapt and act. Keep responsibility with the person or team.
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Reflect
Name what you learned, what the AI added and what you still need to practise.
Read the signals
05Three signals, five levels of attention
HI
Human intelligence
Distinctively human value and resistance to displacement.
FRI
Future relevance
Strategic relevance as technology and work evolve.
IMPACT
Cross-context value
Cross-context value in learning, wellbeing, work and risk prevention.
L1 Monitor
Signal is weak or unverified; keep it under review.
L2 Contextual
Relevant in narrower situations; check the task and setting.
L3 Build
Meaningful capability; develop it through deliberate practice.
L4 Strategic
A cross-context priority; target adaptable, independent use.
L5 Anchor
Essential capability; safeguard, deepen and enable transfer.
L1–L5 describe portfolio attention, not a person’s proficiency. A Target L4 is a strategic development priority; it is not a claim that someone currently performs at Level 4.
Levels of attention · Tracks
Where you are exposed
06Capability can weaken quietly
Routine delegation removes the need to perform the reasoning yourself.
Fluent output invites over-trust before evidence has been checked.
Responsibility becomes unclear when nobody is named as accountable.
Tracks
07Two ways into the practice
For educators
Life skills for future readiness: classroom-ready practice and the maturity questions schools actually face.
For leaders
The leader's AI operating system: where to delegate, where to verify, and how to keep accountability visible.