#CreativeThinking 🎨 While #AI (re)combines data, humans create novel ideas and concepts that go #differentlynormal far beyond any statistics and logic.

#EmotionalIntelligence ❤️ Understanding #people, recognising #unspokensignals and building #genuinerelationships: #complex but valuable.

#EthicalResponsibility ⚖️ Decisions in professional and even more in social life involve #complexquestions of values that can only be answered by #humanjudgement.

👉 https://differentlynormal.eu
👉 @ai #news

The world is differently normal: Be curious!

What was "normal" yesterday is already outdated today. Tech innovation is disruptive and explosive. The world is a differently normal.

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"The model could not account for the interpersonal dynamics. Judgment could.

This is why I doubt that A.I. will soon match human cognition or that the defining skills of the next generation of professionals will be narrowly technological. Technical fluency matters, of course. But in a world of abundant machine intelligence, the most durable advantage will be broad intellectual range.

There is a tendency in higher education and in business to push people toward specialization. A.I. accelerates that pressure. If a machine can do the general work, the conventional wisdom goes, humans should retreat to the specific. I believe the opposite. As routine analysis becomes automated, what distinguishes professionals is the ability to synthesize across domains, to see patterns that specialists miss, to exercise judgment.

Today, when hiring, leaders I know look for what might be called a generalist with judgment, someone analytical and adaptable who is nimble enough to learn skills and become reasonably conversant in new knowledge. The best candidates share a quality no machine can replicate. They think independently, navigate ambiguity without waiting for instruction, analyze the questions that were not asked but should have been and own their decisions. They use A.I. — as a tool but not a crutch."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/opinion/ai-human-judgment.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HFA.UfHn.bWeD8bReYceC&smid=url-share

#AI #GenerativeAI #CriticalThinking #HumanJudgement

Opinion | Why A.I. Can’t Make Thoughtful Decisions

Computers still don’t do well with vagueness and uncertainty.

The New York Times

Predictive technology including algorithms and AI is quietly replacing human judgement in under resourced public services such as policing. In Spain these systems are used to assess the safety needs of women fleeing domestic violence. Too often they get it wrong. When automated risk scores replace lived experience and professional care the consequences are not abstract. They are real and sometimes fatal. This video is a stark reminder that technology without accountability can deepen harm rather than prevent it.

#ai #algorithms #publicservices #policing #domesticviolence #techaccountability #spain #humanjudgement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOjzcHC6RZg

AI replaced Spain's human judgment in domestic violence cases—with tragic results | ABC NEWS

YouTube

Could AI destroy civilisation?
Not through war, not through code gone rogue—but perhaps through something far more familiar.

A reflection on trust, simulation, and the line between help and surrender.

https://pedroinnecco.com/2025/07/death-by-approximation-can-ai-destroy-civilisation/

#AI #AIethics #AIsafety #HumanJudgement #DigitalSociety #PhilosophyOfAI

Death by Approximation: Can AI Destroy Civilisation? • Pedro Innecco

Can AI destroy civilisation? How blind trust in approximation and simulation could quietly lead us to our own undoing.

Pedro Innecco

AI can simulate intelligence, but it can’t choose like we do. What happens when we hand over not just tasks, but judgement?

Why human judgement still matters—and why it must be defended.

https://pedroinnecco.com/2025/07/ai-and-human-judgement/

#AI #HumanJudgement #ResponsibleAI #CTOInsights #TechEthics

AI and Human Judgement: The Line We Must Hold • Pedro Innecco

How do we preserve human judgement in the age of AI? A CTO reflects on ethical design, system trust, and the line machines must never cross.

Pedro Innecco

In the final instalment of this edition of the Talent Aperture Series, I continue the case that hiring isn't procurement—it's stewardship—and explore:

🧠 How we reclaim human judgement in hiring
📈 Why blind recruitment and contextual interviews are gaining ground
💎 What good decision-making really demands in a world drunk on metrics.

https://robert.winter.ink/the-talent-aperture-reopened/

#Discernment #EthicalHiring #AlgorithmicBias #HumanJudgement #ResponsibleAI #TalentEthics #StrategicRecruitment #HiringPractices

The Talent Aperture, Reopened

In a world of automated hiring, human discernment is vanishing. Part III of the Talent Aperture Series explores how over-reliance on algorithms compromises diversity, adaptability, and ethics. Yet through a three step process we can restore judgement as a core capability in hiring—and outlines how organisations can do so. Once upon a restructuring, someone in […]

Dr Robert N. Winter

Researchers from our university and @unihohenheim show that #HybridIntelligence could help preserve #biodiversity while maintaining #AgriculturalProductivity: http://go.tum.de/333807 🌾

#Agriculture #Sustainability #AI #HumanJudgement

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Hybrid Intelligence Can Reconcile Biodiversity & Agriculture

Biodiversity and agricultural production: new technology from TUM and Hohenheim shows a pioneering way forward.

First Person: When the homeless man is your son

Homelessness hits close to home for an Orange County mother.

Orange County Register
First Person: When the homeless man is your son

Homelessness hits close to home for an Orange County mother.

Orange County Register