AI isn’t replacing jobs all at once. It is taking over tasks, one step at a time. In most organizations, those decisions are being made in IT or operations, and L&D hears about them when someone requests training on a workflow that has already changed. By then the most important questions have been answered without you: which work should stay human, which should go to AI, and what should people do with the time they get back?

In this session, Josh Cavalier, Co-Founder and Chief Experience Officer of Talent Rewire and author of the ATD Press book Applying AI in Learning & Development, shows how L&D professionals can move upstream and lead those decisions. You’ll see how to break a real workflow into tasks and steps, use the Human-AI Task Scale to decide how much of each task AI should handle, weigh the risk of getting it wrong, and pinpoint the new skills people need once the work shifts.

You’ll leave with an approach you can try on one workflow in your own organization the next day, and a stronger case for why L&D belongs wherever work is being redesigned.

Josh Cavalier is Co-Founder and Chief Experience Officer of Talent Rewire, where he leads how organizations experience AI-driven workforce transformation, from role impact analysis to reskilling pathways that keep people in the organization. With more than 30 years in learning and development, he is the author of Applying AI in Learning & Development: From Platforms to Performance (ATD Press) and designer of ATD's Applying AI in L&D Certificate Program.