AI is transforming both digital and physical work, but not in the same way. By comparing software engineering with aircraft maintenance, this article examines where human judgment, accountability, and consequence still matter—and how CCH uses material practice to cultivate those capacities in the age of AI.

CCH extends Visual Culture Art Education from image reading to the embodied formation of perception, attention, and visual judgment. In the age of AI-generated images, CCH protects the human capacity to observe, create, reflect, and form a self through material-based artistic practice.