The $1 Trillion Question, Mortality in the Age of Generative Ghosts, Your Mind and AI, How to Design AI Tutors for Learning, The Imagining Summit Preview: Adam Cutler, and Helen's Book of the Week.
Magritte's "Son of Man" metaphor explores digital obscurity of reality. AI model collapse mirrors human isolation effects. Minds struggle without diverse input. Balancing AI benefits and genuine human connection crucial. Develop metacognitive skills to navigate this new landscape.
Generative AI promises personalized learning at scale but risks creating dependency. Complementary cognitive artifacts enhance skills; competitive ones replace them. Effective AI tutors balance engagement and autonomy, expanding human cognition without diminishing critical abilities.
A research review of Joined-Up Thinking by Hannah Critchlow.
Our good friend, Hannah, is one of the UK’s top science communicators. Her latest book is a fabulous expose of the latest neuroscience discoveries that support our collective intelligence. It’s a great read and we highly recommend it. It will change the way you think about the groups of which you are a part.
What It’s About: How humans work best collectively - coping with different opinions, biases, and leveraging the diversity of both humans and machines.
Why It Matters: Almost everything we’ve ever done as a species has been collective. Now it’s getting harder, more complex, and more machine-enabled. We need to understand how to bring more diversity, more effectively as we face more complex decisions.
Highlight: A team with more women is more intelligent than any other team. How about that.
Read It If: You want an accessible, comprehensive meta-analysis of the science of collective intelligence, intuition, and analysis written in Hannah’s unique and engaging style.
Read a bit more: What Makes a Team Smarter? More Women.
Buy it on Amazon.
The Artificiality Weekend Briefing: About AI, Not Written by AI
