Responsible AI Through New Eyes: Perspectives from the Next Generation of L&D - Nigel Paine

As AI becomes embedded in learning and workplace systems, conversations about responsibility, ethics, and impact are often shaped by those who designed the past. But the next generation of learning professionals is already navigating these questions differently, closer to the work, closer to learners, and with fewer assumptions about how things “should” be done.

In this session, members of the Thirty Under 30 cohort, moderated by Nigel Paine, explore what responsible AI looks like from their vantage point. Drawing on their own work across digital learning, accessibility, skills development, and organisational change, they share how responsibility shows up in practice; not as policy, but as daily design and decision-making.

Rather than offering definitive answers, this session surfaces the questions, tensions, and values shaping how emerging professionals are approaching AI with care, curiosity, and accountability.

Key Topics Include:

• How early-career learning professionals think about responsibility and risk in AI use
• The human and accessibility implications of AI-driven learning decisions
• Where enthusiasm for AI meets real-world constraints and ethical concerns
• How confidence, voice, and psychological safety shape responsible practice
• What established leaders can learn from emerging perspectives in L&D