On March 10, 2026 Mimmo Parisi, Director of the Data Science Academic Institute at Mississippi State University, presented a talk titled, "AI and the Future of Workforce Uncertainty: Preparing Humanity for What We Know and Do Not Know" at the conference "Learning by Doing: Ethics and Education in the Era of Artificial Intelligence" sponsored by the Observatory for Integral Intelligence at the Università Pontificia Antonianum in Rome, Italy. The conference brought together leaders from education, industry, and government to consider AI and the human future.
Dr. Parisi's presentation explored how artificial intelligence is reshaping workforce strategy. He urged us to address what we already know about AI while preparing for what remains uncertain and unpredictable.
Using the “known-knowns, known-unknowns, unknown-knowns, and unknown-unknowns” framework, Parisi argued that societies and institutions must build resilience by strengthening AI literacy, data stewardship, governance, organizational readiness, and adaptive workforce development across low-, middle-, and high-skill roles. The framework Parisi presented placed AI within a human-centered ecosystem in which capability, governance, and resilience work together so that AI advances productivity, innovation, and the common good while preserving human dignity, judgment, and opportunity.