AI Change Management

Every government and major corporation is racing to build AI safety and governance. And the human side of the equation is being left out of the plan. Neuroscientist and neuro-futurist Joel Pearson argues we have made a category error. We are treating AI as a technology revolution. It is not. It is an intelligence revolution. And those are not the same kind of thing. This is not a debate about whether AI is good or bad. That is the wrong question. The issue is the size and rate of change. Every job. Every classroom. Every institution. All at once. All exponential. Humans are spectacularly bad at change. The corporate world figured this out decades ago. When a company moves from A to B, it brings in change specialists, phased rollouts, psychological support. Forty years of evidence on how to move humans through disruption without breaking them. So here is the question for Australia. We are facing the largest change event in human history. Where is the change plan? Pearson presents the first AI change plan designed for humans rather than machines. Pressure-tested across fifty Fortune 500 and government engagements. AI safety without a human change plan is not safety. It is engineering