Deskilling Is Already Happening: Evidence Across Domains
From medicine to aviation to driving, the same pattern recurs: skills that are not practised atrophy, even among highly trained professionals. The business risk follows close behind.
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The Cognitive Cost of Convenience
AI delivers real productivity gains, but relying on it to do our thinking quietly reduces the mental engagement that builds and maintains skill. Here is what the research shows, and what it does not.
Read moreThe LLM Wiki: A Pattern for Smarter Organisational Knowledge Bases
Andrej Karpathy's 'LLM Wiki' pattern offers a compelling alternative to retrieval-augmented generation. Instead of re-deriving insights from scratch on every query, AI incrementally builds and maintains a persistent, structured knowledge base. The implications for organisational knowledge management are significant.
Read moreAI for Knowledge Transfer: The Opportunity Most Organisations Miss
AI is widely used to process existing information. Its potential to capture expertise that was never documented in the first place is largely overlooked.
Read moreAI Doesn't Just Miss Tacit Knowledge. It Can Destroy It.
Most AI is designed to optimise tasks. But when it's built without reference to the expertise behind those tasks, it doesn't just fail to capture that knowledge; it can actively erode it.
Read moreWhy Human-in-the-Loop AI Outperforms Full Automation
In high-stakes domains, human-AI collaboration consistently outperforms full automation. Here’s why, and how to design for it.
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