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The thesis we are tracking

AI does not become useful just because the model is powerful.

Context is the multiplier.

Better source context, role context, meeting context, and decision context make AI outputs easier to trust, review, and act on.

Human judgment stays in the loop.

Frontier models are improving quickly, but long-horizon work, reasoning reliability, and business consequences still need human standards and verification.

Adoption is performance work.

The real shift is not tool training. It is redesigning workflows, coaching leaders, and helping people learn how to manage AI-supported work.

Recent research and interviews

Signals that support the GROWtalent argument.

These are the sources that make the page less like a reading list and more like an evidence shelf for AI Curious, GROWlink, Echo, and AI + Performance Coaching.

Research · 2026

Stanford AI Index 2026

Why it matters: capability, adoption, jagged performance, education, policy, and public trust are moving at once. This is the macro signal for why leaders need grounded AI literacy, not tool tips.

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Data index · updated Mar 2026

Anthropic Economic Index

Why it matters: real usage patterns show where AI is becoming economic behavior. Useful for separating actual work adoption from demo-stage enthusiasm.

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Work research · Apr 2025

Microsoft Work Trend Index

Why it matters: human-agent teams require new operating models. The strongest connection to our thesis is that AI changes work charts, supervision, and judgment, not just software spend.

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Adoption research · Oct 2025

Wharton AI Adoption Report

Why it matters: enterprise AI is moving from exploration into accountable acceleration. This supports coaching and measurement as the missing layer between access and ROI.

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Research · Mar 2025

METR: AI Time Horizons

Why it matters: agent capability is improving fast, but reliability drops as tasks become longer and messier. That maps directly to our human-in-loop, source-aware workflow stance.

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Paper · Jun 2025

Apple: The Illusion of Thinking

Why it matters: reasoning models can collapse under complexity. This is a useful caution against treating polished reasoning traces as proof of reliable judgment.

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Talk · 2025

Karpathy: Software Is Changing Again

Why it matters: if natural language becomes a programming layer, then context, specs, evals, and human approval become central management skills.

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Interview · Apr 2026

Demis Hassabis on Agents and AGI

Why it matters: continual learning, memory, and long-term reasoning are still core unsolved problems. That is almost exactly the reason Echo and GROWlink should be context systems, not chat wrappers.

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Interview · Apr 2025

Chollet & Knoop: ARC Prize 2025

Why it matters: ARC keeps the focus on adaptation, abstraction, program synthesis, and benchmark quality. It helps us avoid confusing fluent output with intelligence.

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Interview · Mar 2026

Ethan Mollick on AI Adoption

Why it matters: adoption improves when people experiment at the edge of real work and learn the jagged frontier firsthand. That is the education logic behind AI + Performance Coaching.

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