In March 2021, a driver in Charlton, Massachusetts, plunged his car into Buffumville Lake while following GPS directions. Rescue teams were called to recover the completely submerged vehicle from 8 ...

Researchers, ethicists, and educators are raising concerns that AI's growing role in cognitive tasks and education may undermine human agency, expertise, and data rights. Studies show AI can match ...

It’s quieter, more gradual, invisible and easy to justify along the way: It’s the slow loss of agency inside the company. A company loses agency with AI when humans stop setting direction, making ...

AI image designed by Berlin-based digital creator Julian van Dieken, inspired by Johannes Vermeer's painting "Girl with a Pearl Earring" - Human and AI creativity together (Photo by Simon Wohlfahrt / ...

As AI and agents take on execution, our own agency expands. The question is whether organizations are built to capture it.

AI is expanding employee agency at work, but outdated structures, metrics and incentives are blocking it, limiting the real ...

Human agency is the ability to direct our own thinking. It’s not just a philosophical construct; it’s the everyday act of deciding what to learn, what to believe, and when to stop and think before ...

This article is authored by Tim Curtis, director and UNESCO Representative, UNESCO Regional Office, New Delhi.

If you woke up this morning to squeeze in a workout before work or get your kids ready in time for school, you were exercising your ability to make purposeful decisions, a.k.a. agency. We often don’t ...

This report covers results from the 15th “Future of the Internet” canvassing by Pew Research Center and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center. Advances in the internet and online ...