Dr Nicola Millard

Presenter, writer & researcher on innovation, future work & CX. Ex-futurologist. Film/theatre nut. Waistcoat wearing, ukulele playing, coffee fuelled chocoholic

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The people who will thrive in the AI age: they are “not the ones who seek relaxation and passively use AI to work less. They are the ones who will seek improvement and actively wrestle with AI to develop their own mental capabilities” https://t.co/Do5Dwx01Wg

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Quicker & cheaper, or bigger & better: AI as a growth engine: “Costs can only be cut to zero, but revenue can grow without a ceiling” https://t.co/EVuJebsNut

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Have we lost control of our brains? UoC's Gloria Mark on attention span erosion, and cognitive atrophy (and what to do about it) https://t.co/07yMZB7FDi

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How to shrink the psychological costs of adopting AI: "reducing psychological debt will require that companies design human-AI relationships that recognise the sources of, and barriers to, human motivation and behaviour" https://t.co/Qd8Iwz1271

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The creative risk of letting AI do all the work: "the organizations that will win in the Imagination Era are not those that replace the most humans with AI, but those that become genuinely excellent at human-AI collaboration" https://t.co/UH8Ix2dS83

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Happy National Towel Day to you. As the temperature rises remember to sling that slightly damp rectangle of preparedness over your shoulder & remember: DON’T PANIC! This is the 1 day of the year that you can pretend that carrying a towel around the supermarket is perfectly normal

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So sad to hear that we’ve lost yet another member of the original Blake’s 7 cast - RIP Michael Keating, one of the nicest, most humble people I’ve had the pleasure of having a cup of tea with https://t.co/FUPdGSshuJ

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'Think outside the bots': How to stop AI from turning your brain to mush https://t.co/TJLQDoRilK

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Adults lose skills to AI. Children never build them. https://t.co/2zKJ7LyEy8

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AI use appears to have a “boiling frog” effect on human cognition, new study warns "AI assistance improves immediate performance, but it comes at a heavy cognitive cost" https://t.co/gPLpIwy7fe

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Does Mark Zuckerberg announcing he’s building a chatbot digital twin of himself make us question what CEOs actually do, and how much of that time is well spent? https://t.co/dOGRRop8pN

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A Yale economist says AGI won’t automate most jobs—because they’re not worth the trouble : "Human work, whether essential or supplementary, is valued not by its contribution to growth, but by what it would cost to replace it with compute" https://t.co/X2ERz4Ebrm

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So sad to hear of the death of Moya Brennan, the ethereal voice of Clannad. I saw her & the band many, many times over the years and they were always incredible (their most successful song, The Theme from Harry’s Game, never failed to give me goosebumps) https://t.co/Xkn3YEDMDS

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Good enough to pass; not good enough to impress. Research from MIT suggests that, when a job requires multiple steps, creativity, or precision, AI replacements are more likely to fail than succeed https://t.co/kV1uLNQ4sV

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Are you a cyborg, centaur, or self-automator? Study looks at how employees engage with AI, how it affects the quality of their work, and what they learn while doing it https://t.co/gleIXt0SbL

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Cognitive surrender: do we trust AI over our own brains? “When AI is wrong, people end up performing worse than if they had no AI at all, & become more confident in their wrong answers” https://t.co/bLw0Qkq4HF

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"The human component is undervalued not because it isn’t real but because it’s hard to measure…What you can measure becomes more important than what really matters. Trust is hard to measure. Customer retention is measurable but slow" - Rory Sutherland https://t.co/gaKIuFXT2B

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NOOOOOO!!!! Liza Tarbuck is leaving her Radio 2 show - no more squeaky dog toys, bizarre stories about squirrels, and the most eclectic music playlist this side of Skegness 😞. https://t.co/YC2LeliP8p

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Giving people AI agents doesn’t guarantee better productivity/wellbeing. Multi-agent systems can cause “AI Brain Fry”, pushing the limits of cognitive capacity. Some individuals are “working harder to manage the tools than to actually solve the problem" https://t.co/6Ilm0ruhx0

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Pro-worker AI tools are “arguably pro-firm tools as well because they enable workers to produce more value. Yet anecdotal evidence suggests that a great deal of the current AI focus is on task automation” https://t.co/6JUHhZApjq