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

Can you still perform the surgery?

So there's that aspect.

that we need to be concerned about.

There is probably less that you're offloading.

There could be decisions that you're making or learning or skills, but you're going to essentially be forced to test yourself without AI present.

As of now, there's not, you know, AI and a racket for a tennis player to uh, you know, be told at the moment, like, no, go for the spin.

They're about to do this.

So I think for

Now at least, probably that's pretty safe, as opposed to again going back to to medicine, where not only maybe the the AI is is unavailable, but maybe the AI is available, but we get, say, a novel coronavirus.

And so we don't have the data and the the needed for machine learning for AI to be able to make decisions.

We want to make

sure that our our medical professionals can still

reason and think through information in those cases where the AI isn't going to be available for a different reason.

I think that it would be good to make decisions that are well informed.

So if this is a skill that you don't care about, then don't worry about it, right?

So if it's, for example, you want to spend your time coming up with a new business idea, but you don't want to program the budget, for example, you know, come up with the budget.

Yeah, maybe using AI for that while you spend your cognitive resources on something else, that might be a good use for you.

So it depends on what skills you want to make sure that you maintain.

If you want to learn a new skill or you want to make sure that you maintain a new skill, then really thinking about how you use the AI.

And I think this is important in the workplace in particular, because the short

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