P&T 04 025 Beane

Publish Date: Monday, December 23, 2024 Matt Beane on Saving Human Ability in the Age of Intelligent Machines As part of our informal series on artificial intelligence, Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Matt Beane, Assistant Professor of Technology Management at the University of California Santa Barbara, about his book The Skill Code: How to Save Human Ability in the Age of Intelligent Machines. Beane outlines the fascinating forms of research he did - both his own ethnographic work and reanalyzing the data of other ethnographers - to better understand how automating technologies are being adopted in organizational settings and how such adoption may threaten traditional mentor-mentee relationships through which junior workers learn crucial skills. Beane also discusses ways in which the worst negative skill-learning outcomes may be avoided and his own work trying to create new training systems to improve our current situation.