AI: Tool or Transformation? - Zone of Attention scan
The conversation about AI adoption includes the dominant story with a focus on the productivity gains, competitive pressure, and urgency to move fast. This scan includes that story and builds it out.
AI: Tool or Transformation? widens the frame to include perspectives and communities that mainstream adoption discourse routinely passes over: older workers, care workers, creative professionals, people in precarious employment, small family businesses, and the Global South. It maps the drivers that make AI adoption feel inevitable and it names the power dynamics, hidden costs, and unacknowledged grief that accompany any genuine change in how people work. If you are facing a decision about AI adoption, or living inside one, this scan will help you see more clearly what you are actually dealing with.
Zone of Attention Scans are structured sense-making resources for leaders, managers, and practitioners who are facing decisions where a lot is already happening but the underlying conditions don't seem to be shifting.
Each scan uses a methodology which draws on Causal Layered Analysis, futures and foresight traditions, and critical scholarship on power, ethics, and harm, to move beneath the surface conversation and make visible what is structurally driving a situation. The scans surface patterns, name tensions, and ask harder questions than most decision-support tools are willing to ask.
They do not tell you what to do, they will change what you are able to see before you decide.
Each topic is available in two versions: a free summary scan that orients you quickly to the key patterns, and a full scan that provides the complete analysis, evidence base, and decision-support materials.