The perfect storm of learning provoked by generative AI is not just about learning how to use the technology to change human patterns of work and life. The technologies are re-orienting how we think we learn, how we communicate with each other, and the economic, social, political, creative, and ethical factors that inform how we navigate human-influenced existence on this planet. This book addresses the need for workers in any industry to take responsibility for learning how to best use generative AI systems in their unique contexts.

Generative AI can navigate you towards learning, but also towards conducting research and teaching yourself things; to empower you in reimagining and reinventing how you learn while doing your work. Just like you can regenerate content persistently using generative AI systems, so too can you regenerate what and how you learn. Chapters will prepare you to inform and guide the small team you are a part of, or influence leadership to navigate the territory of leveraging generative AI systems responsibly.

Besides pointing to all the more obvious benefits of learning how to use generative AI systems more effectively, this book provides use cases, research and educational theory to propose that interacting with the technology leads to a number of unanticipated learning outcomes. These outcomes challenge the very way in which we have come to learn, what we have learned, and what we may need to unlearn. As generative AI becomes increasingly integrated within workplace environments at some point or other we will each reach a critical point of having to decide if we are going to use the technology and how.

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Patrick Parra Pennefather is an Associate Professor and Researcher at the University of British Columbia within the Faculty of Arts and the Emerging Media Lab. His research is focused on Collaborative Learning Practices, Emerging technology development, Research Creations, and GraphRAG research and development within the field of machine learning. Patrick also works with learning organizations and technology companies around the world to adopt generative AI strategically within complex and inter-dependent team environments, and design learning courses that meets the needs of diverse communities to aid the development of the next generation of technology designers and developers.