Protect your critical thinking - Live at Analytics Summit

About this episode

The episode discusses the negative impacts of AI on critical thinking and data privacy issues in the tech industry.

Welcome back. Today we are looking at two massive shifts in the tech landscape that might be doing more harm than good... and we are doing it live from Analytics Summit, Hamburg! Are LLMs actually making us smarter, or are they just 'glazing' us? We’re arguing that relying on AI for everything is eroding the foundational knowledge of SQL, Python, and even basic math that you actually need to survive in this industry. How to protect your critical thinking before it evaporates? Then, we have to talk about Google. After years of delays that felt like Groundhog Day, their decision to drop most Privacy Sandbox initiatives is, frankly, demoralizing. We will go into why this forces us into 'black box' solutions like Consent Mode and why that makes data validation a total headache. Let’s do it!!

People in this episode

Hosts: Juliana Jackson, Simo Ahava

Topics covered

• critical thinking
• AI impact
• data privacy
• technology shifts
• data validation

Keywords

• critical thinking
• AI
• data privacy
• Google
• Privacy Sandbox
• Consent Mode
• SQL
• Python
• math

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Analytics Summit, Google

Products: Privacy Sandbox, Consent Mode

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