Workday Rising 25 - How Wellesley College applies critical thinking to AI adoption, and makes Workday personal with Extend

Workday's recent report on how agents are reshaping the workforce cites the "potential and paradox" of agentic AI:

• 90 percent of employees surveyed believe that AI agents are going to help them get more done, but:
• 48 percent are concerned that their productivity gains will come at the expense of their own critical thinking skills.

These findings don't come in a vaccum; diginomica has reported on a slew of studies warning of an atrophy of critical thinking skills via an over-reliance on generative AI tools.

During a media session at Workday Rising 2025, we picked up the topic with the provocative question: "Is AI Quietly Killing Our Skills? How to Prepare Workers to be Successful Collaborators with AI."

'We could have an employee population that's great at prompting, but not at learning and collaborating'

During the panel discussion, Chris Ernst, Chief Learning Officer, Workday framed the problem ...