Goldman Sachs partner unveils ‘real danger’ in working with AI

He made the warning as he pointed out the eventual decline in some skills following the development of technology that can do better than humans in these capabilities.

“Think about like wayfinding, running hundreds of miles on the savannah and finding your way back, right? Totally lost that capability,” he said. “Remembering things, like bards used to be able to recite entire books. Now you don’t need to remember anymore. You just read it in a book. That was the printing press, right?”

With AI, Churchman said humans are delegating the ability of reasoning to technology.

“So I think that my North Star here is, I feel a great responsibility building products for the firm such that in 10 years time, a new joiner to the firm, their friends say to them, ‘Oh my goodness you can handle that much reasoning?'”

“And so, I think that has to be a proactive choice to think about how do we empower human reasoning, not delegate it.”