“The Disrupted Workforce” interviewed me! We talk through my research on how AI can be leveraged as productive friction for improving teamwork, communities, and our critical thinking and creative capacity.

Ultimately, we took on the question: Can AI make humanity better?

🎧Tune in: https://link.chtbl.com/the-disrupted-workforce

#techinnovation #disruptedwork #thedisruptedworkforce #futureofwork #futureoflearning #productivefriction #humanpotential #generativeai

The Social Life of Bees: Social learning even plays out in bumblebees! Bees trained to solve a puzzle box via explicit rewards were able to teach other bees using only implicit social rewards. Social learning induces dopamine rewards that can replace sugar rewards and drive bubble-scale innovation.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07126-4

We humans surely do the same in social learning contexts, which is why role modeling is so powerful and social contagion is so pernicious.

Death to slides! I’ve always hated their use as a crutch and now we have the research to back it up. Researchers tracked eyes and brain activity as learners watched video lectures with human, animated, or no instructors onscreen. Having an instructor present more synchronized eye movements and brain activity (yay! More interbrain synchrony) and most importantly, “superior post-test performance”.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2309054121

Read more on social learning at https://www.socos.org/whos-more-social-aliens-bees-ais-or-intestinal-protozoa/

Wow! How's this for a line up? #Brynjolfsson #Harari #Cowen #whoeverthehellthatlastadyis

Come see all of us at the "Future of Talent Summit" in Stockholm, June 18-19.
https://futuretalentcouncil.org/events/future-talent-summit-2024-stockholm/

(Bonus: 4-way rap battle at the closing dinner to decide the future of AI.)

Are you in London? Hate homelessness? On May 1st I’m chairing a dinner for the amazing Crisis Venture Studios! “Venture Philanthropy: The Benefits, How It Works, & How To Get Involved”.

https://www.theconduit.com/upcoming-events/venture-philanthropy-the-benefits-how-it-works-how-to-get-involved/

External registration: https://share-eu1.hsforms.com/1OIG8mD2JQBuDTuH-VYhppQ2b2ovr

Vivienne’s Research Round (recent papers that grabbed my attention):

1) “The emergence of economic rationality of GPT” finds GPT acts even more rational than real humans, because our public writing is who we want people to think we are rather than our actually irrational selves. (As every analysis I’ve done on Facebook and Twitter data has shown, it’s all self-deluding lies!)
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2316205120

That's me (all washed-out B&W), soon to be giving the keynote at the @Ontario Securities Commission’s annual conference #OSCDialogue: Inviting, thriving and secure capital markets on May 22nd, 2024.

We'll explore diverse perspectives in boardrooms, successful team dynamics, and the transformative impact of AI.

Let’s navigate the balance between trust and diversity for collective intelligence and corporate success.

Register here: ow.ly/tCz350QKSaf

During my keynote at SxSWedu I was wearing Google Glass on stage and reading live tweets as we presented—chaotic fun!

My favorite compliment from the keynote came after the next day's keynote by George Bush's Secretary of Education: "The only thing I learned in the past hour is that if the two of you had been in charge instead of him, we'd all be a lot better off today."

Read more about my work in this space at https://www.socos.org/