How people build, retain, and redeploy capability across education, entry into work, leadership, career transition, longer lives, and increasingly synthetic information environments. The work studies both individual agency and the institutional conditions under which people can continue to learn, decide, and contribute.
Two threads run through the domain. 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.