We Need to Build Human Connection For the AI Era |
Workplaces are scrambling to redefine what humans do best in the AI Era. In this moment, we need people to think boldly and collaborate courageously. However, Americans are currently facing devastating levels of loneliness, anxiety, and disconnection. According to former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy, loneliness now carries a mortality risk comparable to smoking 15 cigarettes a day.
While AI transforms everything from schools to boardrooms, we are ignoring the one human advantage no technology can replace: our capacity to connect.
Across classrooms, workplaces, and online spaces, we see a troubling pattern of brilliant minds constrained by systems that leave people unseen and pitted against one another. Students arrive on campus carrying extraordinary talent alongside profound doubts about whether they belong. Workers collaborate across distances without the structures that help trust grow. Online, algorithms prioritize outrage rather........