---
id: "lit-ai-literacy"
type: "adjacent-literature"
source_timestamps: ["Enrichment Overlay — Adjacent Literature §5"]
tags: ["ai-literacy", "critical-digital-literacy"]
related: ["claim-competence-halves-workslop", "action-invest-ai-literacy"]
sources: ["adoption"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-adoption"
originDay: 9
articleStem: "hbr-edu-38-ai-workslop"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/01/why-people-create-ai-workslop-and-how-to-stop-it"
sourceTitle: "Why People Create AI “Workslop”—and How to Stop It"
---
# AI Literacy & Critical Digital Literacy

**AI Literacy & Critical Digital Literacy.** Education and workforce researchers emphasize AI literacy and critical digital literacy as essential to ensuring AI use enhances rather than undermines quality — including the critical evaluation of AI outputs. The Learn & Work Ecosystem Library explicitly situates workslop within these concerns.

Directly supports [[claim-competence-halves-workslop]] and [[action-invest-ai-literacy]].