Program II
Human Performance
Education · work · leadership · career transition · longevity
Overview
Human capability is institutional infrastructure.
How people build, retain, and redeploy capability across education, entry into work, leadership, career transition, longer lives, and increasingly synthetic information environments. We study both individual agency and the institutional conditions under which people can continue to learn, decide, and contribute.
Two threads run through the pillar. The first is developmental: what happens to the pathways by which people acquire judgment when AI absorbs the routine tasks those pathways were built on, and how institutions support capability renewal at mid-career and beyond. The second is protective: how attention, verification, and decision quality hold up in environments engineered to fragment them, and what institutional structures resist that erosion.
Research approach
How people build, retain, and redeploy capability across education, entry into work, leadership, career transition, longer lives, and increasingly synthetic information environments. We study both individual agency and the institutional conditions under which people can continue to learn, decide, and contribute.
Two threads run through the pillar. The first is developmental: what happens to the pathways by which people acquire judgment when AI absorbs the routine tasks those pathways were built on, and how institutions support capability renewal at mid-career and beyond. The second is protective: how attention, verification, and decision quality hold up in environments engineered to fragment them.
Image credits
- Human Performance
- Artemis II Orion water-survival training, Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, January 23, 2024. Photo: NASA/Josh Valcarcel.