Today, I wanted to dive into another episode from the CTech BiblioTech archive. This time, I am highlighting my conversation with Dr. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, author of “I, Human: AI, Automation, and the Quest to Reclaim What Makes Us Unique”, which was recorded in August 2023.

The book is an exploration of how AI will change our lives and what we can do to ensure we maintain our personalities and uniqueness. Many of the topics we address in the conversation relate to how different generations might respond to the algorithms living beside us.

For example, he cites tech leaders like Bill Gates and Elon Musk, who present concerning views of AI, but also respond positively to how Gen-Z might learn to adopt such technologies.

“One of the things that the digital age has introduced is ever more and more ADD-like behaviors,” he said. “We are pressed to do things quicker and quicker. And therefore, there are few rewards for pausing and thinking.”

Even though he believes humans are “perfectly capable” of stopping and taking time to consider their thoughts and actions, most decisions made today in the AI age are so rapid that they become predictable and therefore easily outsourced to machines.

“Gen-Z and the next generation will need to showcase their expertise in a different area or a different way,” he told me during the recording for CTech. “Expertise is mutating from knowing a lot of answers to asking the right questions - from memorizing and retrieving facts to knowing how, why, and where the facts are wrong… Demonstrating and cultivating expertise is a big challenge for the young generations.”

MORE: I asked Eric Weinstein about my baby's future in an AI world.

Tomas is an organizational psychologist who works mostly in the areas of personality profiling, people analytics, talent identification, the interface between human and artificial intelligence, and leadership development. He is the Chief Innovation Officer at ManpowerGroup, a professor of business psychology at University College London and at Columbia University, co-founder of deepersignals.com, and an associate at Harvard’s Entrepreneurial Finance Lab.

Those interested in an extended written interview with Tomas can find it on CTech by following this link.

You can also buy your own copy here: https://www.amazon.com/Human-Automation-Quest-Reclaim-Unique/dp/1647820553

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