Dan Saffer, Assistant Professor of The Practice at Carnegie Mellon's Human-Computer Interaction Institute, is a veteran product design leader across devices, software, and systems for organizations like Twitter, Flipboard, Smart Design, Microsoft, Samsung, and CNN, and the author of four books, including the best-selling Microinteractions. Dan will join AIxImpact Co-Founder and Rise Culture Founder Cassie Gruenstein for a timely deep dive into the human performance impact of AI adoption.
Dan will discuss what academic research reveals about the real dangers of deskilling and how we can approach AI as an instrument that actively reskills and deepens human capability as you play it.
Join us for a candid, thoughtful look at navigating AI without losing human craft:
What the academic research is actually showing about deskilling, critical thinking, and cognitive offloading
The shift from AI as a transactional tool to AI as an instrument that expands your creative intuition
Practical ways to design your own interaction model with AI so that your judgment deepens over time
Expect a live, unscripted conversation followed by open Q&A.