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Director Imagining the Digital Future Center at Elon University. Former director of internet and tech research at Pew Research Center.
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Human Purpose in Peril

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By Lee Rainie
| Benton Institute for Broadband & Society
A new nationwide survey by Elon University’s Imagining the Digital Future Center (ITDF) reveals U.S. adults’ attitudes about the expanding use of LLMs and their deepening impact on essential aspects of being human: human connection, purpose, agency and critical thinking.
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Building a Human Resilience Infrastructure for the AI Age

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By Lee Rainie
| Benton Institute for Broadband & Society
The vast majority of expert respondents in a 2026 survey by the Imagining the Digital Future Center said humans need to build a highly coordinated resilience infrastructure for the AI Age to counterbalance the human and systemic challenges posed by widespread AI adoption. Some 82% said AI will play a significantly larger role in shaping people’s lives and key societal functions in the next 10 years or less.
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Human interactions with artificial intelligences: Research agendas for education, health, creative expression, and governance

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By Brian Southwell, Lee Rainie, Maria Gallardo-Williams
| rti.org
Open Access Peer Reviewed DOI: 10.3768/rtipress.2026.op.0100.2603 Impact statement: Human actors can responsibly integrate AI tools into work through iterative human review of outputs and explicitly assigning humans to initiate and consider the questions that guide projects in education, health, creative expression, and governance. Synthesizes research priorities generated through a hybrid convening of nearly 500 participants, combining structured human deliberation with AI-enabled analysis.
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