He’s more machine now than man*
“AI makes you smarter but none the wiser” is the phrase from the Fernandez et al paper that stood out. Their point that AI can improve task performance while leaving people poorly calibrated about their …
Please do NOT feed the machine …
At PolymathMind.ai Adam Riley and I have been examining the threat that comes with the AI medium luring us into accepting outputs that should have been more thoroughly checked, double-checked and rigorously evaluated. But the …
A ‘Golden Age’ for Whom?
Picking up on framing issues in a binary way being a trap when it comes to unravelling the complexity of likely impact of AI, I think binary thinking survives because choosing a side is less …
If everybody is thinking alike, somebody isn’t thinking!*
This week’s Polymathmind.ai Substack article from Adam Riley and myself points to Malone’s finding that AI-human teams often underperform the best of either alone. The question this raises is a useful one: when does AI …
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The future is already here — just not evenly distributed*
The future is already here — just not evenly distributed* The PolymathMind.ai Substack from Adam Riley and I this week makes an argument I want to push one step further. The data shows that …
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Raising The Bar
Most AI adoption conversations focus on speed. More drafts, more options, more outputs, faster (and cheaper!). But the organisations that will win with AI aren’t necessarily those that automate the most. They’re those that invest …
Kicking away the ladder
Here is a question worth addressing. If AI compresses twelve hours of junior work into fifteen minutes, who pays for the apprenticeship? Professional services were built on a quiet bargain. Clients paid for some inefficiency …
Judgement Redux … The paradox at the heart of AI-shaped work
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 …
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