Notes from a conversation with a friend about how to build trust and candour within a team at work:

- The more frequent the retrospectives, the better: 18 minutes per day does much more to build trust than 90 minutes once per week
- You can take the lead in sharing vulnerably in a retrospective. If you're respected, it gives others confidence. If you're disrespected, now you know who is hurting the team safety, and you have a specific example you can bring up in a 1:1
- In the retrospective, push for specifics. Folks who are shy may get vague in their comments as a way to avoid confrontation. This is good for social cohesion in a ruinous empathy sort of way. By pushing for specifics, you can bring the conflict into the open so we can work through it
- It may help to have an active facilitator to help make the retrospectives productive
- If you share observations and feelings instead of conclusions, you invite discussion and are likely to come up with more suitable and actionable conclusions

"A study of physicians in Poland who specialize in endoscopy — the use of flexible probes to examine the inside of the human body — shows how quickly AI tools can erode human abilities. The physicians, who had all performed at least 2,000 colonoscopies during their careers, were given access to an AI system that analyses colonoscopy images in real time and flags a type of precancerous intestinal lesion called an adenoma. The tool was available to the specialists on some days but not on others.

Once physicians began using it, their performance dropped significantly whenever the system was unavailable. During the three-month period before the AI tool was introduced, the specialists found at least one adenoma during 28.4% of colonoscopies. During the three-month period after the tool was introduced, the adenoma detection rate for colonoscopies performed without AI assistance decreased to 22.4%.

Gastroenterology and Hepatology, suggest that even highly skilled professionals might get worse at tasks that their job requires as they become more dependent on AI tools, says Robert Wachter, a physician at the University of California, San Francisco, who is the author of a book on how AI tools are transforming health care. The study authors say that continuous exposure to such tools can cause clinicians to become “less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance”.

Co-author Yuichi Mori, a physician-researcher at the University of Oslo, says that more studies are needed to confirm the phenomenon. But people who use AI tools should be aware that they risk losing some of their skills, he adds. “There is no established solution against deskilling right now. It should be a very hot research topic in the next decade.”"

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01947-1

#AI #Deskilling #Science #Medicine

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