{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1", "title": "Future Ahead Magazine — A²IP", "home_page_url": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/", "feed_url": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/feed.json", "description": "Features, profiles, and investigations into AI leadership and professional practice, from the Association of AI Professionals.", "_issn": "3143-7915", "icon": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/assets/social/default.png", "language": "en", "items": [ { "id": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/articles/the-automation-paradox-macroeconomics-of-ai-reallocation.html", "url": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/articles/the-automation-paradox-macroeconomics-of-ai-reallocation.html", "title": "The Automation Paradox: Why AI Will Reallocate, Not Liquidate, the Global Workforce", "summary": "AI displaces tasks, not jobs. A macroeconomic feature on task reallocation, Hulten's Theorem, and why the WEF projects a net gain of 78 million jobs worldwide by 2030.", "image": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/assets/social/default.png", "date_published": "2026-07-15T09:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Pankaj Sharma" }, { "name": "Shubh Sharma" } ], "tags": [ "Analysis" ] }, { "id": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/articles/the-new-hire-how-ai-is-rewriting-the-rules-of-workforce-demand.html", "url": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/articles/the-new-hire-how-ai-is-rewriting-the-rules-of-workforce-demand.html", "title": "The New Hire: How AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Workforce Demand", "summary": "Artificial intelligence is not simply automating jobs - it is fundamentally redesigning the skills employers seek, the roles they create, and the kind of professional who will thrive in the decade ahead. What does the new hiring landscape actually look like?", "image": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/assets/social/the-new-hire-how-ai-is-rewriting-the-rules-of-workforce-demand.png", "date_published": "2026-06-01T09:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Editorial Team" } ], "tags": [ "Feature" ] }, { "id": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/articles/the-inference-economy-who-profits-when-ai-scales.html", "url": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/articles/the-inference-economy-who-profits-when-ai-scales.html", "title": "The Inference Economy: Who Profits When AI Scales", "summary": "The economics of AI deployment are concentrating value in ways that were predictable but have arrived faster than most forecasts anticipated. A feature on the infrastructure layer, the inference economy, and who captures the gains as AI scales.", "image": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/assets/social/the-inference-economy-who-profits-when-ai-scales.png", "date_published": "2026-05-27T09:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Editorial Team" } ], "tags": [ "Feature" ] }, { "id": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/articles/from-prompt-engineer-to-ai-strategist-the-evolution-of-a-profession.html", "url": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/articles/from-prompt-engineer-to-ai-strategist-the-evolution-of-a-profession.html", "title": "From Prompt Engineer to AI Strategist: The Evolution of a Profession", "summary": "As large language models mature from novelty to infrastructure, the role of the prompt engineer is already dissolving into something richer and more consequential: the AI strategist. This feature traces that transformation through candid interviews with practitioners across five industries.", "image": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/assets/social/from-prompt-engineer-to-ai-strategist-the-evolution-of-a-profession.png", "date_published": "2026-05-20T09:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Editorial Team" } ], "tags": [ "Feature" ] }, { "id": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/articles/against-explainability-theater-the-gap-between-transparency-claims-and-genuine-a.html", "url": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/articles/against-explainability-theater-the-gap-between-transparency-claims-and-genuine-a.html", "title": "Against Explainability Theater: The Gap Between Transparency Claims and Genuine Accountability", "summary": "Explainability has become one of the most-invoked concepts in responsible AI discourse. It has also, in practice, become one of the most systematically abused. An argument for distinguishing genuine transparency from its performance.", "image": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/assets/social/against-explainability-theater-the-gap-between-transparency-claims-and-genuine-a.png", "date_published": "2026-05-13T09:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Editorial Team" } ], "tags": [ "Opinion" ] }, { "id": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/articles/the-general-counsel-dilemma-advising-on-ai-when-the-law-is-still-being-written.html", "url": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/articles/the-general-counsel-dilemma-advising-on-ai-when-the-law-is-still-being-written.html", "title": "The General Counsel Dilemma: Advising on AI When the Law Is Still Being Written", "summary": "General counsels at major corporations are navigating a regulatory environment in flux - advising boards on AI liability before courts have even heard the first major cases. We profile three GCs at the coalface of this challenge.", "image": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/assets/social/the-general-counsel-dilemma-advising-on-ai-when-the-law-is-still-being-written.png", "date_published": "2026-05-08T09:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Editorial Team" } ], "tags": [ "Profile" ] }, { "id": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/articles/deploying-ai-in-crisis-lessons-from-emergency-response-organisations.html", "url": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/articles/deploying-ai-in-crisis-lessons-from-emergency-response-organisations.html", "title": "Deploying AI in Crisis: Lessons from Emergency Response Organisations", "summary": "Emergency response organisations face a unique version of the AI deployment challenge: the stakes of failure are measured in lives, the operating environment resists standardisation, and the people using the tools are under extreme stress. Three organisations share what they have learned.", "image": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/assets/social/deploying-ai-in-crisis-lessons-from-emergency-response-organisations.png", "date_published": "2026-05-06T09:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Torres, A." } ], "tags": [ "Case Study" ] }, { "id": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/articles/the-caio-playbook-what-every-chief-ai-officer-learned-in-year-one.html", "url": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/articles/the-caio-playbook-what-every-chief-ai-officer-learned-in-year-one.html", "title": "The CAIO Playbook: What Every Chief AI Officer Learned in Year One", "summary": "The Chief AI Officer is one of the fastest-growing executive titles in the world. The first cohort of people who held it have now completed at least a year in the role. What have they actually learned — and what would they tell their successors?", "image": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/assets/social/the-caio-playbook-what-every-chief-ai-officer-learned-in-year-one.png", "date_published": "2026-04-22T09:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Mensah, D." } ], "tags": [ "Feature" ] }, { "id": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/articles/inside-the-ai-ethics-review-how-three-companies-built-their-internal-governance-.html", "url": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/articles/inside-the-ai-ethics-review-how-three-companies-built-their-internal-governance-.html", "title": "Inside the AI Ethics Review: How Three Companies Built Their Internal Governance Boards", "summary": "An investigation into the internal AI ethics review boards at three Fortune 500 companies reveals striking differences in mandate, authority, and - most critically - whether they actually have the power to say no.", "image": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/assets/social/inside-the-ai-ethics-review-how-three-companies-built-their-internal-governance-.png", "date_published": "2026-04-15T09:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Editorial Team" } ], "tags": [ "Investigation" ] }, { "id": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/articles/ai-in-the-boardroom-directors-who-are-getting-it-right.html", "url": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/articles/ai-in-the-boardroom-directors-who-are-getting-it-right.html", "title": "AI in the Boardroom: Directors Who Are Getting It Right", "summary": "Not all board directors are scrambling to understand AI. A small cohort have become genuinely fluent - and their approach offers lessons for every board navigating the technology strategic implications.", "image": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/assets/social/ai-in-the-boardroom-directors-who-are-getting-it-right.png", "date_published": "2026-04-08T09:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Editorial Team" } ], "tags": [ "Feature" ] }, { "id": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/articles/ghost-writing-the-future-ai-and-the-integrity-of-scientific-literature.html", "url": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/articles/ghost-writing-the-future-ai-and-the-integrity-of-scientific-literature.html", "title": "Ghost-Writing the Future: AI and the Integrity of Scientific Literature", "summary": "Large language models are increasingly present in scientific writing — from drafting assistance to, in some documented cases, near-wholesale generation of manuscripts. The implications for research integrity, reproducibility, and trust in published science are only beginning to be reckoned with.", "image": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/assets/social/ghost-writing-the-future-ai-and-the-integrity-of-scientific-literature.png", "date_published": "2026-04-01T09:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Lindqvist, E." } ], "tags": [ "Investigation" ] }, { "id": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/articles/the-human-ai-team-lessons-from-the-first-generation-of-hybrid-workplaces.html", "url": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/articles/the-human-ai-team-lessons-from-the-first-generation-of-hybrid-workplaces.html", "title": "The Human-AI Team: Lessons from the First Generation of Hybrid Workplaces", "summary": "Three years into widespread AI tool adoption, the organisations that have integrated AI most successfully share a counterintuitive lesson: the technology is rarely the hardest part.", "image": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/assets/social/the-human-ai-team-lessons-from-the-first-generation-of-hybrid-workplaces.png", "date_published": "2026-03-24T09:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Editorial Team" } ], "tags": [ "Case Study" ] }, { "id": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/articles/dissenting-voices-the-ai-professionals-pushing-back.html", "url": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/articles/dissenting-voices-the-ai-professionals-pushing-back.html", "title": "Dissenting Voices: The AI Professionals Pushing Back", "summary": "Not every AI professional is bullish on the technology trajectory. We give space to the thoughtful sceptics - those who work in the field and have significant reservations about where it is heading.", "image": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/assets/social/dissenting-voices-the-ai-professionals-pushing-back.png", "date_published": "2026-03-17T09:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Editorial Team" } ], "tags": [ "Opinion" ] }, { "id": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/articles/the-quiet-power-women-shaping-ai-governance.html", "url": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/articles/the-quiet-power-women-shaping-ai-governance.html", "title": "The Quiet Power: Women Shaping AI Governance", "summary": "Behind the most consequential AI governance decisions at several of the world's largest organisations sit women who rarely appear on conference stages. We profile four of them — and ask what their presence, and their relative invisibility, tells us about the profession.", "image": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/assets/social/the-quiet-power-women-shaping-ai-governance.png", "date_published": "2026-03-10T09:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Editorial Team" } ], "tags": [ "Profile" ] }, { "id": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/articles/regulation-in-motion-what-the-eu-ai-act-means-for-practitioners-on-the-ground.html", "url": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/articles/regulation-in-motion-what-the-eu-ai-act-means-for-practitioners-on-the-ground.html", "title": "Regulation in Motion: What the EU AI Act Means for Practitioners on the Ground", "summary": "The EU AI Act is now in force. For AI professionals in Europe and beyond, the practical implications are only beginning to become clear. We report from the implementation frontier.", "image": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/assets/social/regulation-in-motion-what-the-eu-ai-act-means-for-practitioners-on-the-ground.png", "date_published": "2026-02-15T09:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Editorial Team" } ], "tags": [ "Feature" ] }, { "id": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/articles/when-the-algorithm-is-wrong-accountability-gaps-in-automated-decision-making.html", "url": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/articles/when-the-algorithm-is-wrong-accountability-gaps-in-automated-decision-making.html", "title": "When the Algorithm Is Wrong: Accountability Gaps in Automated Decision-Making", "summary": "Automated systems are making consequential decisions about people's access to credit, healthcare, and employment at scale. When those systems err, the path to remedy is often opaque, slow, and inadequate. An investigation into the accountability gap.", "image": "https://a2ip.unb.college/publications/magazine/assets/social/default.png", "date_published": "2026-03-03T09:00:00.000Z", "authors": [ { "name": "I. Petrov" } ], "tags": [ "Investigation" ] } ] }