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  • A tattered white flag flying from a wooden pole against an overcast grey sky, torn and fraying at the edges as it whips in the wind, beneath bold white headline text reading "The Rise of Cognitive Surrender?" with "COGNITIVE SURRENDER" emphasised in heavier type.
    September 3, 2026
    Dave Coplin Dave Coplin

    Are We Still Thinking?

    The big fear I'm hearing from chief executives isn't whether AI will get things wrong, or whether it'll cost too much. It's that their people will keep getting the right answers without any idea how those...

    • AI and Education
    • AI Policy
    • Future of Work
    • Human Skills Trinity
    • Leadership
    • Organisational Culture
  • Silhouetted treeline and hills beneath a dense, star-filled night sky with a faint meteor streak, above bold white headline text reading "We Are All of Us in the Gutter" with "ALL OF US" emphasised in heavier type.
    August 27, 2026
    Dave Coplin Dave Coplin

    Confidence and Curiosity

    Ask Londoners where they learned to use AI and the answer is stark. Three-quarters taught themselves by experimenting. Educational institutions accounted for 8%. Libraries and community groups, 4%. Incandescent...

    • AI and Education
    • AI Policy
    • Future of Work
    • Human Skills Trinity
    • Leadership
    • Organisational Culture
  • A robotic hand types on a laptop keyboard in front of a row of humanoid robots, under the title "How I Make This" — header image for Dave Coplin's essay on writing with AI.
    August 6, 2026
    Dave Coplin Dave Coplin

    How I Make This

    The way things are going these days, that sentence is currently supposed to sound like a confession. Like I’ve been trying to hide something that’s not polite to mention in public or be proud of. Except...

    • Agentic AI
    • AI Policy
    • Efficiency vs Effectiveness
    • Future of Work
    • Human Skills Trinity
    • Knowledge vs Wisdom
    • Leadership
    • Outside-In Thinking
    • Technology
  • A herd of wildebeest splashing through a muddy river during the Serengeti migration, with the title 'When Wisdom Walks' overlaid at the top.
    July 16, 2026
    Dave Coplin Dave Coplin

    When Wisdom Walks

    The wildebeest thunder across the Serengeti. The caribou cross the Canadian tundra in their hundreds of thousands. And every July, with startling reliability, LinkedIn fills up with the annual Microsoft...

    • Future of Work
    • Human Skills Trinity
    • Knowledge vs Wisdom
    • Leadership
  • Chalkboard-style chart titled 'A Relationship, Not a Skill,' plotting confidence against knowledge as AI users move from novice to expert—confidence spikes early, dips through a trough of realistic understanding, then climbs gradually toward genuine competence.Chalkboard-style chart titled 'A Relationship, Not a Skill,' plotting confidence against knowledge as AI users move from novice to expert—confidence spikes early, dips through a trough of realistic understanding, then climbs gradually toward genuine competence.
    July 2, 2026
    Dave Coplin Dave Coplin

    A Relationship, Not a Skill

    But for me, the pearl in this particular oyster was buried on page 17, and it has nothing to do with adoption. 80% of education leaders rated their institution’s AI guidance as clear. Half of students...

    • AI Policy
    • Future of Work
    • Human Skills Trinity
    • IT Leadership
    • Leadership
    • Organisational Culture
    • Outside-In Thinking
  • Two people sitting apart on a sofa, arms crossed, not looking at each other. Labelled 'The Business' and 'IT'. Title reads: Rebuilding Relationships.
    June 11, 2026
    Dave Coplin Dave Coplin

    What 4,000 CIOs Taught Me

    Then I walked into the room and something different happened. Not better or worse than the plan. Just real. The kind of real you only get when four thousand people are in front of you and the argument...

    • AI Policy
    • Efficiency vs Effectiveness
    • Future of Work
    • Leadership
    • Outside-In Thinking
    • Technology
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Dave Coplin

Keynote Speaker, Author & AI Strategist  | The Rise of the Humans


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