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

And while at first some of those studies looked promising, usually it's the case that they were unable to have FAR transfer, right?

So we have people do a task that's designed to increase their working memory capacity.

And then we see if they're better on an intelligence test.

And it's really hard to find that far transfer.

So it suggests that we're fairly insensitive to our experiences with those cognitive abilities.

So for a lot of people, that was bad news, right?

For a lot of people.

We wanted to get smarter by doing brain training.

And that seems like a great thing to do.

The promising side of this, of course, is that if these abilities are fairly insensitive to experience, then we probably don't have to worry as much about our intelligence getting worse with AI, because if it's insensitive.

More insensitive to experiences, it's probably not going to be the case that we use AI AI and now we just can't think anymore.

So skills and knowledge acquisition, much more sensitive to experience and probably much more sensitive to how we use AI in terms of maintaining and acquiring.

But basic cognitive abilities, we might be a little bit safer about.

Yes, I'll give the caveat that all of this is new.

I could be completely wrong about everything that I'm saying.

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