Peter Lee

I think there's a much more profound threat to all professionals, in fact, all society, which is the impact of this technology on our critical thinking skills.

And we're often finding that people are starting to outsource their brains to these tools.

I mean...

It's been happening for a while.

You think about people's inability to navigate when they rely on Google Maps.

Yeah, Google Maps.

Don't know where anything is anymore.

Other technologies like that.

But we're now seeing that play out in professional work as well.

And so there's been some recent research done on that which shows there does appear to be a direct correlation.

And it's human nature to be a bit lazy and rely on these tools, but just relying blindly on the output

It's dangerous because the underlying large language models can be fraught with bias.

They can hallucinate.

And so I do think that is a really, you know, that's a big threat to our profession that we need to counter.

And the best way to do that is to treat these tools as sparring partners and also to really understand the best ways to use them and to build in some checks and balances along the way.

Yeah, this is a very complicated, complex question.

And I think the law in most, in all countries, I don't think is settled on this.

I think there's a much more profound threat to all professionals, in fact, all society, which is the impact of this technology on our critical thinking skills.

Three years ago or two years ago, top of our recruiting list were computer scientists, data scientists.

Now I'm looking to hire philosophers.