Most AI training sessions lose the room before minute ten by opening with features nobody asked about. SHRM data shows more than half of workers are worried about AI affecting their roles. The trainers who get it right start with the question everyone is thinking: am I about to be replaced?
University of Chicago research reveals people learn less from their own failures than successes due to ego protection. The solution is not avoiding mistakes but designing AI training simulations that create safe environments where controlled failure accelerates learning without the psychological cost.
Stop treating AI like software to learn from manuals. Nearly 57 million Americans want AI skills, and peer learning research pioneered by Eric Mazur shows organizations where people teach each other through daily work are the ones seeing real AI adoption stick.