Brooke McNamara

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Speaking of Psychology · AI “de-skilling”: What happens when we offload our work to AI? With Brooke Macnamara, PhD · 22 Jul 2026 podcast

Exactly.

So so we'll see.

But I don't want to come across as just sort of anti any kind of new technology because I think there are absolutely benefits that come with it.

What are the big questions that you're trying to answer?

So one of the questions that I'm working on with colleagues from computer science and medicine and robotics is looking at AI skill development, uh particularly in radiology and surgical robotics, uh, skill maintenance in those areas.

So do we see skill decay?

And then overconfidence.

So we've been collecting data on that for about a year.

We're getting close.

And it's still preliminary at this case.

So I don't want to get into results, but it might be potentially the case that that we should have some concerns about AI in terms of our confidence and our learning.

So that's that's something that I've been working on with AI.

And

And then with Evan Risco, who studies cognitive offloading, we're planning a series of studies to look more at some of these studies that have come out and looking at longer scales of skill acquisition, other ways that cognitive offloading might change how people interact with AI.

So just sort of joining what a lot of people are studying this topic at this moment.

point is just that there's lots of new studies coming out.

But even though I say lots, it's we're so new.

It's just these one-off studies on this one topic here and there that we're getting to where we really have a a broader knowledge base about it, but we're not there yet.

Sure.

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