How AI is reshaping the lived experience of working people — the jobs they hold, the way they think, the kids they’re raising, the dignity they bring to their work. This section follows the human impact of AI, not as abstract policy questions, but as lived experience.

Most coverage of AI focuses on what the technology can do. This section focuses on what it’s actually doing to people — workers told to use AI maximally then quietly told to stop, new graduates locked out of the entry-level rungs they need to build careers, students whose brains may be developing differently because of how they’re using these tools. The point isn’t to be alarmist. It’s to make sure these stories don’t get drowned out by the louder narrative of capability and progress.

Current pieces

The first article looks at what happened when corporate America told everyone to use AI for the past two years — and is now quietly walking that back. Meta, Uber, Amazon, Microsoft. The reporting is sharp and the data is verifiable across The Verge, Financial Times, Fortune, and NY Fed labor data.

What happens when companies tell everyone to use AI — then quietly tell them to stop →

The second piece looks at what the latest research is showing about AI’s effects on how humans think — including a recent MIT study with EEG monitoring that found measurable cognitive offloading effects that persisted even after the AI was removed. The piece is careful, honest about caveats, and ends on the most important point: the tool is not the problem, the way we use it is.

What AI is doing to how we think — and what the research actually says →

More pieces coming — on the cognitive effects on children specifically, the regulatory response taking shape in the UK and other countries, and the voices worth following as this story develops.