466 — What L&D should (and shouldn't) be doing with AI
Oct 14, 2025
According to Donald Taylor and Egle Vinauskaitė's recent AI in L&D: The Race for Impact report, 'creating learning content' and 'learning design tasks' remain the primary use cases for AI in learning and development. But should they be?
In this week's episode of The Mindtools L&D Podcast, L&D consultant Heidi Kirby joins Ross D and Claire to discuss:
- the obvious appeal of using AI to scale learning content;
- why Heidi believes outsourcing development to AI is a mistake;
- what L&D could or should be using AI for, if not content generation.
In 'What I Learned This Week', Ross mentioned the website mcbroken.com.
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