AI on My Mind

AI on My Mind
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Welcome to AI on My Mind, a mini-series exploring the rise of AI through the lens of psychology.Rosie Pegge interviews psychologists, academics and business professionals to understand the potential psychological impacts of increased AI usage and how to promote greater AI safety in this rapidly developing field.Image cover credits:Clarote & AI4Media / https://betterimagesofai.org / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The podcast explores themes around the psychological impacts of AI, including risks to cognitive development and the balance of technology use, with episodes like 'Are we outsourcing too much of our critical thinking to chatbots?' discussing cognitive friction and safer AI design principles.

Welcome to AI on My Mind, a mini-series exploring the rise of AI through the lens of psychology.
Rosie Pegge interviews psychologists, academics and business professionals to understand the potential psychological impacts of increased AI usage and how to promote greater AI safety in this rapidly developing field.
Image cover credits:
Clarote & AI4Media / https://betterimagesofai.org / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this inaugural episode of AI on My Mind, Rosie Pegge brings you expert voices from the world of psychology to explore the question of how increasing usage of AI could impact our critical thinking capacities.
Episode outline:
- Risks to cognitive development of outsourcing too much of our thinking to AI
- The importance of cognitive “friction” in the learning process
- Why policies like technology bans and disclaimers don’t work
- Looking towards safer design and adoption of AI systems
Rosie Pegge draws on her academic and professional experiences in psychology, digital consultancy, AI and the emerging field of AI safety and governance.
Guests include:
- Molly Pennington – Assistant Psychologist specialising in neurodiversity and mental health
- Dr Luke Treglown & Mollie Tatlow – Organisational Psychologists from Thomas International
- Victoria Russell and Tom Hirschmann – Business Professionals from We Are Creative
- Prof Daniel Richardson – Professor of Experimental Psychology at University College London (UCL)
- Prof Joseph Devlin – Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL
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