References

A wide reading habit, not a validation study.

These are the sources that shape how we think about AI, work, and human capability. Not proof. Not peer-reviewed causation. Just a serious, ongoing effort to read widely and think carefully about what AI is actually doing to the way people work.

Posture
Representative selection
Scope
Regulatory · Labour · Industry · Books
Updated
5 May 2026

This page is a representative selection. The full picture is much larger.

We wade through a lot: regulatory documents, industry reports, academic papers, books, survey data, and emerging scholarship. Most of it is useful. Some of it is hype.

The framework reflects what holds up across multiple sources over time, not a single study and not a single moment.

01 — Regulatory & Standards · 3 sources

What governments and standards bodies are codifying.

The frameworks regulators are building from. These set the floor for what counts as serious AI literacy.

Regulation
European Union
EU AI Act
Regulation EU 2024/1689 · Risk-based framework, AI literacy obligations
Principles
OECD
OECD Principles on Artificial Intelligence
Inclusive growth, human-centred values, transparency, accountability
Recommendation
UNESCO
Recommendation on the Ethics of AI
Global ethical framework adopted by 193 member states
02 — Labour Market · 5 sources

What the data says about work that is actually changing.

Survey data, programmatic research, and longitudinal studies tracking how AI is reshaping employment in real time.

Report
World Economic Forum
The Future of Jobs Report
2025 · Skill displacement, role transformation, reskilling demand
Survey
Anthropic
Economic Index Survey
2026 · What 81,000 people told us about the economics of AI
Programme
OECD
Future of Work Research Programme
Ongoing · Cross-country labour-market analysis
Programme
European Commission
Future of Work Research and Innovation Programme
Horizon Europe-funded research stream
Institute
Institute for the Future of Work
IFOW research output
UK-based · Good work, technology, and human flourishing
03 — Industry Reading · 2025–26 · 16 reports

What consultancies and platforms are publishing about AI at work.

The current pulse of enterprise AI: agents, adoption, and organisational design. Read with skepticism, but read.

Consultancy
BCG
AI Radar
2026 · Annual AI executive survey
AI at Work: Momentum Builds But Gaps Remain
Workforce adoption study
Consultancy
McKinsey & Company
Superagency in the Workplace
Frontline empowerment thesis
Global Tech Agenda
2026
The State of Organizations
2026
The Agentic Organization · State of AI
2025
Consultancy
Deloitte
State of AI in the Enterprise
2026 · Annual global executive survey
Platform
IBM
The Enterprise in 2030
Long-range organisational forecast
Practical Guide to Agentic AI
Implementation reference
Platform
Microsoft WorkLab
Agents are Here
2026 · Annual Work Trend Index
Platform
Google Cloud
AI Agent Trends
2026
Consultancy
Accenture
Platform Strategy in the Age of Agentic AI
Enterprise-platform thesis
Survey
PwC
AI Agent Survey
US business executive insights
Survey
EY
Agentic AI Workplace Survey
Cross-industry workforce analysis
Editorial
Harvard Business Review
Agentic AI Is Already Changing the Workforce
Editorial analysis and case studies
04 — Books · 5 titles

The longer arguments worth sitting with.

Books that develop a thesis at length: practitioner, economic, political, philosophical, and at the edge.

Ethan Mollick
Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
2024 · Practitioner
Daniel Susskind
A World Without Work
2020 · Economic
Kissinger, Mundie & Schmidt
Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit
2024 · Philosophical
Acemoglu & Johnson
Power and Progress
2023 · Political economy
Yudkowsky & Soares
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
2025 · Risk / edge view
This list moves

New reports arrive weekly.

Some confirm what we already think. Some change it. The framework is updated as the evidence builds, not fixed at a single point in time.

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Page · References · Updated 5 May 2026 · Representative selection