As artificial intelligence takes over more tasks, decisions and coordination, what happens to the human capabilities we develop through doing those things ourselves?

In this episode of The Post-Project World, Dr Robert Carter, physiologist, researcher and co-author of The Convenience Trap, joins PPW Dispatches to explore the relationship between technological convenience, human performance and the capabilities we cannot afford to lose.

Automation promises greater efficiency, faster decisions and less unnecessary work. But removing effort also raises a less comfortable possibility: that we may be eliminating some of the experiences through which people develop resilience, adaptability and independent thinking.

This Dispatch explores:

• How technological convenience can affect human capability and resilience.

• The difference between removing unnecessary work and removing valuable learning experiences.

• Why increasing automation changes the responsibilities of people within organisations.

• The risks of technological dependence and the importance of maintaining human expertise.

• What organisations should consider before delegating more decisions and activities to AI.

About the contributor

Dr Robert Carter is a physiologist and researcher whose work examines human performance, resilience and the effects of modern convenience. He is co-author, with Dr Kirti Salwe Carter, of The Convenience Trap.

About PPW Dispatches

One question. One contribution. One synthesis.

Each Dispatch features an independent recorded contribution responding to a central question, introduced and followed by editorial reflections from Luigi Pascal Rondanini.

The Post-Project World is produced by Rondanini Publishing Ltd and explores organisational design, artificial intelligence, governance and the changing relationship between human work and machine-mediated execution.

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