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

Now, long term, if the study had looked for a very long term,

time with those skills have atrophied in the kids?

Possibly.

So in the workplace, there's the idea of, okay, what's happening during training where you're learning a new skill?

And then once you've already hit a level of expertise, but now you're just relying on the AI, do your skills decay?

So there's a bit of evidence for both of those.

It's

Likely the case that if you know a skill really well, it's going to take much longer for the skill to decay to have that disuse.

We have that that study that I mentioned that after about six months of disuse, that those skills start to decay by about 50%.

Now that's complete disuse.

Using the AI and cognitively offloading isn't complete disuse.

So it's probably a bit slower than that.

But I think

It's something that we still need to be concerned about.

Quite possibly they would be completely unaware of it.

Um it's going to depend on how they're using the AI, most likely.

But absolutely, if the AI is sort of picking up the slack, so to speak, at at every turn uh and keeping that inside a black box so that they don't even know that it's happening, absolutely we could be caught unaware, which could potentially be an issue in say K.

Cases in medicine where not only maybe the AI is not available or gets updated uh and it's different and you don't know how to use it.

So you're a a surgeon using a robot and this is a bit more in the future because the AI isn't really set in there, but that's that's a goal in terms of the future of work.

So now the AI isn't working.

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