AI in Articulate: Excited or worried?

Thank you, JudyNollet​, for pointing to my recent thoughts on this! I just published a new post: AI Makes Course Development Faster. What Does That Mean for IDs?

AI can certainly generate courses that look polished in minutes. This is where I feel excited. As PhilMayor​ described: a good ID will use AI differently, and as ronald-hicks​ ​ demonstrated, AI can save a lot of time while producing something that looks professional. But the real challenge is whether the course actually solves the learning problem. That’s where instructional design expertise matters.

AI lowers the barrier to production, but it doesn’t lower the barrier to judgment. Knowing what needs to change, and how to change it, is what makes learning effective. Without that expertise, organizations risk producing more courses faster, but not necessarily better learning.

So I don’t see AI as replacing IDs. Instead, it highlights the difference between “making a course” and “making learning work.” And that distinction is exactly where our professional value lies.

My concern is that some organizations may simply accept these “looks-good courses,” and that leads to another issue I raised earlier in my other thread: An eLearning Course May Be Teaching More Than You Intended.