Using AI at Work: AI in the Workplace & Generative AI for Business Leaders 68: Using AI at Work Without Being Replaced with Steff Vanhaverbeke
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Sep 8, 2025 Steff Vanhaverbeke, author of "Being Replaced," shares her insights on how to thrive in an AI-driven world. She introduces the Cognitive Agility Framework, focusing on five irreplaceable human skills: critical thinking, creativity, emotional intelligence, collaboration, and intuition. Steff emphasizes the need to avoid "AI slop" by maintaining authenticity and highlights real-world examples, like the Tomorrowland festival, to illustrate the power of human collaboration. Tune in to discover how to integrate AI while keeping your unique human strengths!
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Cognitive Agility As The Human Advantage
- Steff Vanhaverbeke frames her Cognitive Agility Framework as five human skills that AI can't automate.
- She argues AI can free humans to focus on flexible, embodied cognition rather than replace them.
Flexible Thinking Beats Rigid Models
- Flexible thinking combines critical, creative and systems thinking and remains uniquely human.
- Steff says AI is rigid once it commits to a path and cannot match human mode-switching and embodied sensing.
Authentic Empathy Cannot Be Simulated
- Emotional intelligence requires real feeling and sensing of unspoken context which AI only simulates.
- Steff illustrates that in high-stakes care situations you want a real person, not a chatbot, for authentic empathy.
