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This chapter marks the conceptual threshold of the handbook.
It explains why the entrance of AI changes not only the speed of work, but the structure of learning itself.
The central shift is not from low efficiency to high efficiency.
It is from tool use to co-presence.
When AI becomes part of the cognitive exchange, the learning environment changes qualitatively.
Once AI is treated as a participant rather than a passive instrument, new questions emerge:
Without this shift, the rest of the handbook collapses into productivity discourse.
With it, the handbook can begin to describe a new mode of co-learning.