Psychological
Meaning, confidence, and uncertainty
How people respond to acceleration, comparison, replacement fears, expanded capability, and rapidly changing expectations.
Research Area
Human Adaptation
Hii studies how people, families, workplaces, professions, and institutions change as AI becomes part of thinking, care, learning, work, and everyday decision-making.
Focus: orientation, agency, cognition, identity, work, relationships, institutions, and unequal transition pressures.
Central Question
How do humans remain capable and oriented while the surrounding system changes faster than shared norms?
Adaptation is not only learning to use a new tool. It includes changes in confidence, judgment, identity, employment, relationships, institutional trust, and the ability to distinguish assistance from dependence.
Adaptation Layers
The transition reaches the whole human system.
Cognitive
Thinking with AI
How memory, attention, problem-solving, authorship, learning, and decision-making change when cognition becomes distributed across systems.
Relational
Effects beyond the interface
How AI use affects family life, intimacy, collaboration, social trust, conflict, and the balance between machine and human support.
Institutional
Systems adapting unevenly
How schools, healthcare, workplaces, government, and civil society respond at different speeds and with different levels of preparation.
Current Work
Orientation before prediction.
Systems intelligence
Hii World Model
A human-reviewed map of high-signal changes, evidence strength, contradictions, convergence, and what to watch next.
Open the World ModelPublic literacy
Human-AI Relationship Literacy
Shared language intended to help people notice changes in agency, dependency, continuity, trust, and adaptation before those patterns become invisible.
Explore public understandingBoundary
Adaptation is not the same as acceptance.
Hii does not assume every technological change is desirable or inevitable. The research asks which conditions expand human capability, which create harm or exclusion, and where people and institutions should slow, redesign, or refuse.