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  • 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 hand holding a pencil points at a detailed technical engineering blueprint covered in pipework, fittings and dimension measurements. Overlaid text reads: "Autonomy is a design decision."
    July 30, 2026
    Dave Coplin Dave Coplin

    Autonomy is a Design Decision

    Until recently, we haven’t had language precise enough to make that choice. You were either “using AI” or you weren’t. Then a better vocabulary turned up in an unexpected place - the Mills Review, the...

    • Agentic AI
    • AI Policy
    • IT Leadership
    • Outside-In Thinking
  • Bodiam Castle surrounded by its still moat, with the headline "Trust is the Moat" overlaid above the turrets
    July 23, 2026
    Dave Coplin Dave Coplin

    Trust is the Moat

    It held your data, designed the journey, set the price, and waited for you to come to it. Reading through the FCA’s recently published Mills Review and the work I’ve been doing underneath it, what keeps...

    • Agentic AI
    • Leadership
    • Outside-In Thinking
  • Header image for The Sledgehammer Problem — a sledgehammer strikes a walnut, illustrating the cost of using AI's most powerful models for tasks that don't need them.
    July 9, 2026
    Dave Coplin Dave Coplin

    The Sledgehammer Problem

    As tempting as it is to always reach for the sledgehammer first, experience tells you that different jobs require different levels of force. Maybe we just haven’t built that experience with AI yet. That...

    • AI Policy
    • Efficiency vs Effectiveness
    • IT Leadership
    • Leadership
    • Outside-In Thinking
  • 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
  • A large house under construction at golden hour, wooden frame and scaffolding visible, roof trusses exposed, stacks of timber and construction materials in the foreground. Text overlay reads: ARROGANCE VS ATTENTION.
    June 25, 2026
    Dave Coplin Dave Coplin

    Arrogance vs Attention

    For twenty years, the smartest people I know have given the same advice on technology: don’t build it, buy it. It was good advice, and there was a reason for it that nobody said out loud very often. Choosing...

    • AI Policy
    • IT Leadership
    • Organisational Culture
    • Outside-In Thinking
    • Technology
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Dave Coplin

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


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