{"id":253436,"date":"2026-05-23T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T16:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/work-becomes-more-human-in-the-age-of-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T12:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T16:15:09","slug":"work-becomes-more-human-in-the-age-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/work-becomes-more-human-in-the-age-of-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Work becomes more human in the age of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Work becomes more human in the age of AI<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/work-becomes-more-human-with-artificial-intelligence-704332\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-23 12:12:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.rochester.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Artificial intelligence is increasingly framed in stark extremes: either as a revolutionary tool poised to transform society for the better or as a looming threat ready to replace human workers. Headlines about \u201crobot nurses,\u201d rogue chatbots, and indefatigable virtual assistants can make the technology feel both exciting and deeply unsettling.<\/p>\n

But according to University of Rochester experts from business, medicine, and ethics, the reality is more nuanced. Daniel Keating \u201905S (MBA), Kathleen Fear, and Jonathan Herrington say the more important question may not be whether AI will replace humans\u2014but which parts of human work should never have consumed so much human attention in the first place.<\/p>\n

Keating, a clinical associate professor of information systems and AI at URochester\u2019s Simon Business School, sees AI less as a wholesale replacement for workers than as an agent that will fundamentally reshape how people spend their time and energy at work.<\/p>\n

The technology excels at repetitive cognitive tasks, but human judgment, leadership, and creativity remain essential.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to use it as a creative palette to which you bring your best ideas and hone your strongest questions,\u201d Keating says. \u201cThe directive is to have AI make your ideas better.\u201d<\/p>\n

More than a machine<\/h3>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s so much hype about AI in the world,\u201d says Fear, senior director of digital health and AI at University of Rochester Medicine. \u201cAI can feel like something happening to people\u2014something they\u2019re not in control of, that will change their lives and jobs without them knowing what to do about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the same time, the experts see a future in which AI is most useful not when it imitates humanity, but when it creates more room for distinctly human capacities: empathy, creativity, judgment, and connection. And even some of the messier human elements\u2014like mistakes, emotions, intuition, and uncertainty\u2014remain features instead of bugs.<\/p>\n

\u201cAI can feel like something happening…<\/p>\n

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