Adam Riley and I wrote earlier this article about the cognitive cost of AI fluency. I want to add a layer to that argument. The Alvesson and Spicer concept of “functional stupidity” – where organisations …
Judgement Redux … The paradox at the heart of AI-shaped work Read More »
Adam Riley and I have been discussing this piece for weeks, and I think the discussion has been instructive. Adam’s instinct, drawn from the consultants in his study, is that the most important shift is …
Fools’ Gold … the deceptive allure of easy answers. Read More »
A confession from inside the system: higher education is not currently built to produce the people the AI economy needs. I don’t mean this as provocation. I mean it structurally. We are organised around producing …
One of the central challenges in the AI era is knowing when human judgement, creativity and intuition should take the lead — and when AI can make a powerful contribution. Over the last few months, …
Judgement in the Age of AI … You Can’t Always Get What You Want Read More »
Philosophy can sound abstract, even a little wishy-washy, until you translate it into what it really is: clear, deep, critical, creative and ethically grounded thinking. At that point, it starts to look far less like …
What we’re finding especially exciting at present at PolymathMind.ai is designing training programmes that spell out precisely how humans and AI can collaborate in a true collective intelligence mode. Our focus is on the three …
In discussions about whether AI will lead humans to delegate their thinking, rather than learn how to think better by working with it collaboratively, I am reminded of Germaine Greer, the celebrated intellectual and author. …
I’ve always liked the “panorama principle” – the idea that context explains everything when we’re trying to understand complex change. When faced with the choice between digging for ever more detail or stepping back to …
