Some of the articles that have me thinking today in the theme of AI enhancing and not replacing human wisdom, judgment and critical thinking.

Digital Workers Have Arrived in Banking – The Wall Street Journal

Agentic AI in the wild! Banks are already using “digital workers”—bots that do everything from document review to fraud checks to chatting with coworkers over Teams. These aren’t future concepts; they’re on the payroll now. From a macro level the question is about the right level of autonomy. On a personal level I need to prepare my kids not just to have the social skills to manage and work with people colleagues but also to manage and work with AI colleagues.

There Are No New Ideas in AI… Only New Datasets – JXM Blog

We’re not building brains but curating libraries. Jack Morris argues that breakthroughs such as ImageNet, the Common Crawl and massive video corpora—not radically new algorithms—have pushed AI forward. Bigger, cleaner and more diverse data act as the real “secret sauce,” while model architectures mostly remix familiar building blocks. How much control and privacy am I willing to relinquish for myself and my family? Do we even have a choice?

The Path to Medical Superintelligence – Microsoft AI

Microsoft’s announcement that an AI tool outperformed doctors on tough diagnostic cases sounds incredible—until you dig deeper. Real doctors weren’t given full tools, and the data came from idealized textbook cases, not real-world messiness. I still need to take great care to teach my kids how to sift through the claims and hype about AI in order to determine safe and appropriate AI use cases.

What Would Hayek Think of AI? – WSJ Opinion

More about the limits of AI. We need to have: “humility about its limits. AI works best as a tool that enhances rather than replaces human judgment. It can help us process information, identify patterns and generate options. But it can’t substitute for the irreducibly human work of navigating competing values, managing trade-offs and living with uncertainty.”

AI Impact: Six Lessons – Newsweek

AI on the cover of Newsweek! Newsweek distills six practical rules: keep humans in control, use AI to augment not automate, target tasks AI is genuinely good at, treat it as a generator of possibilities not final answers, focus on human-centred problems and embrace creative partnership over techno-utopian hype.