When Your Expertise Stops Being Yours

About this episode

David Rice discusses the human cost of rapid AI adoption with Dr. Rachel Wood.

AI is supposed to free people up for “higher-value work.” Fine. But what, exactly, is that work? In this episode, David Rice talks with cyberpsychology researcher and psychotherapist Dr. Rachel Wood about the part of AI adoption most organizations keep skimming past: the human cost of automating too much, too quickly, without a real philosophy for what should remain deeply, stubbornly human. Their conversation cuts through the usual AI optimism and gets to the more uncomfortable truth. Some f...

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Host: David Rice

Guest: Dr Rachel Wood

Topics covered

• AI
• human cost of automation
• cyberpsychology
• work philosophy

Keywords

• automation
• higher-value work
• AI optimism

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