{"id":233521,"date":"2026-06-18T08:38:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T12:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/building-human-connection-to-create-value-in-the-ai-era\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T09:05:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:05:17","slug":"building-human-connection-to-create-value-in-the-ai-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/building-human-connection-to-create-value-in-the-ai-era\/","title":{"rendered":"Building human connection to create value in the AI era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/stories\/2026\/06\/human-connection-more-valuable-age-of-ai\/\">Building human connection to create value in the AI era<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/stories\/2026\/06\/human-connection-more-valuable-age-of-ai\/\">https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/stories\/2026\/06\/human-connection-more-valuable-age-of-ai\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-18 08:38:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.weforum.org\">www.weforum.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reducing the cost of creating content, code, and analysis, potentially shifting the focus from digital output to trusted human connections as a more important source of economic value.<\/li>\n<li>Business leaders are advised to treat communities and trusted networks as strategic infrastructure instead of non-essential &#8220;soft assets&#8221; due to their increasing value in an AI-driven economy.<\/li>\n<li>The World Economic Forum\u2019s Annual Meeting of the New Champions emphasizes scaling impactful ideas related to AI, highlighting the importance of in-person gatherings that foster human connections.<\/li>\n<li>In an era where AI makes information and analysis abundant, credible and trusted human relationships may become scarce and thus more valuable, offering a paradoxical shift in economic focus.<\/li>\n<li>Trust, which develops through repeated human interactions, is crucial in decision-making amidst a flood of synthetic digital content, thereby enhancing decision-making and reducing uncertainty.<\/li>\n<li>Established tech firms are investing in developer conferences, customer communities, and ecosystem-building to foster real-world relationships, acknowledging the competitive advantage of convening people around shared goals.<\/li>\n<li>There is a dual opportunity and risk with expanding access to trusted networks, as closed communities could limit the broad benefits of AI-enabled abundance, whereas open pathways can promote social cohesion and innovation.<\/li>\n<li>Business leaders should:\n<ol>\n<li>Treat trust as infrastructure by building and maintaining communities of various stakeholders for knowledge sharing and norm establishment.<\/li>\n<li>Design networks aiming for access rather than exclusivity to promote broader benefits and inclusivity for underrepresented groups.<\/li>\n<li>Measure community-building activities as strategic assets, tracking participation and trust to recognize their increasing importance in competitive advantage in the AI era.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building human connection to create value in the AI era https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/stories\/2026\/06\/human-connection-more-valuable-age-of-ai\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-18 08:38:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets.weforum.org\/article\/image\/responsive_large_GmLbNqVdJ_I1uq7rx01tjHQnm4mtIg3FOEGmf2pGXCk.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-233521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233523,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233521\/revisions\/233523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}