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

I think the more that you engage with the skill yourself, test yourself on how well you know the information or can perform the task without AI is important because there's also the possibility that we are overconfident in our skills with AI.

So if you're engaging with the task with AI, probably your performance is better than if you weren't.

Using AI.

But if that AI is taken away, what is your skill level?

But because you've been performing the task at a very high level, it's possible that you're mistaking your competency for what is essentially your competency plus the AI's competency.

So it might be good also to test your skills without it to see what your actual competency is.

And this is something done, so for example,

Autopilot, which of course is not AI.

It's an automation.

In other words, if you have the same environment, it'll do the same thing every time, which of course is different from AI, which is learning and adapting and making decisions that were previously the domain of the expert alone.

But in aviation, autopilot, the FAA is concerned that pilot's skills are at

that they're not performing as well.

And so there's strong recommendations that pilots go through an entire flight using manual control because they're concerned that those skills are being lost.

Right.

There's again limited evidence, but some evidence to suggest that these are different processes.

So this is outside of of the workplace, but for example, there was a study looking at using AI to learn math.

And so if you're learning a new skill, or even with calculators, going back even sort of more basic, um, with calculators.

If a kid is learning a new math skill, but with a calculator, they tend to not learn it as well as if they needed to try to generate the answer themselves and then use the calculator as a check.

But for kids who already had those math skills and then used a calculator, it didn't matter.

It didn't affect those skills.

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