What AI Puts at Risk: Social Skills, Empathy and Face-to-Face Connection

  • Author: Dr. Lew Bayer
  • Credit: 1
  • Study time: 30 minutes
Being Human in the Age of AI micro course
Course overview
AI can find the words. Only you can give the attention. Learn what AI puts at risk in workplace relationships and which moments to keep human.
  • Video time: 3 minutes
  • Certificate of Completion included

What's included?

  • 5 Lessons
  • 1 Certificate of Completion
  • 1 Worksheet
  • 3 Videos
  • 2 PDF downloads

What you will learn

Describe, in balanced terms, what AI use may put at risk in workplace relationships, and what the evidence does and does not show.

A tool you can use this week

The Human Moment Test: three questions that decide which interactions to keep human; AI-mediated communication research; perceived versus expressed empathy. The worksheet helps you apply it to a real situation this week.

Dr. Lew Bayer

CEO of Civility Experts Inc., author, and Canadian Civility Ambassador
ABOUT LEW
Dr. Lew Bayer is internationally recognized as the leading expert on civility at work. She is CEO of Civility Experts Inc., a multinational civility training group with more than 500 affiliates in 46 countries, and the author of 23 books, including the bestseller The 30% Solution and a new book on diplomacy due for release in January 2027. With some 30 years of experience as a practitioner and mentor, Lew and her team of social architects help organizations build better workplaces by building competency in civility. She serves as faculty at the Canadian Management Centre, is Director of the International Civility Trainers' Consortium, and is currently embracing her role as Canadian Civility Ambassador.
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