Tom Slater

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Merryn Talks Money · What If AI’s Biggest Impact Isn’t Jobs, But Minds? · 11 May 2026 podcast

Yep.

And this is back to this sort of erosion of human skill or changing the way that there just isn't this stable balance between us and the machines.

As you use these tools, as they become more and more effective, your relationship with them changes.

And we have this tendency to, when they confidently say things about the world, to accept it as true.

We give them a false, inappropriate amount of respect.

I think there's a couple of things.

There is some evidence that in sort of expert domains, that if you use these tools deliberately, they can make you better.

One example of that was in the game Go, where AI famously beat a human player.

But what you've seen subsequent to that sort of landmark event was that human players have learned from AI

the AI, it's developed novel strategies, novel ways of going about the game, and you've seen an improvement in human performance.

And do you see that result in sort of expert fields where these tools are used in a very deliberate way to be complimentary to the human behavior?

And so I think the key to it is, do you actually deliberately and thoughtfully engage with these systems, or do you just allow them to take over tasks that people are doing?

And all the evidence suggests that if you don't really tightly control that, people will just let the machine do it, and human capability will atrophy.

I think that's the real challenge, right?

Because people look at this technology and say, it can allow me to reduce costs and I can...

I don't have to hire junior people.

I don't have to train them.

I can use these systems.

And there's real pressure to do that.

But I just think that is a very dangerous path to go down.

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