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Power of Ten with Andy Polaine

In the Power of Ten podcast, Andy Polaine talks to guests from a broad range of disciplines about the intersection of design, technology, psychology, organisations, culture and society. The show looks at how design operates at many levels and in many forms, from thoughtful detail through organisational transformation to the changes in society and the world.

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“I think it's pretty clear that the big players are not going to earn the money back that they need to in the timeframe that they have said. So at the very worst there's gonna be a massive collapse. But even at the best, these things are gonna get very much more expensive and gentrified. There seems to be no way out of that, because they've trained everyone to use it very frivolously, and really it should cost at least ten times as much as it's currently costing people.” — Andy Polaine, Power of Ten with Andy Polaine
Andy Polaine · 11 Nov 2026 Listen →
“We don't know how to help people who want to over-rely, or in the parlance of the literature, who are low need for cognition, meaning they don't like thinking. We don't know how to get them to pay attention, to think through stuff like their job may be requiring of them. And it's pointing to a future where if all of work needs to be AI augmented, then we have a category of person who will be pushed out of jobs, and that's a scary future.” — Chris Noessel, Power of Ten with Andy Polaine
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“Once you get to AI, the types of skills that you risk losing by constantly asking it to assist you are the cognitive skills. Skepticism. Even inquiry, structuring a mental map in order to pursue the answer to a question. Losing skills in those things means that we are losing the ability to contain the thing that threatens us, which is the AI that's threatening the de-skilling.” — Chris Noessel, Power of Ten with Andy Polaine
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“It's not just that you're handing off the cognitive work to make the thing, you're handing off the cognitive work to understand the thing that is made, and it is imperative upon me as a designer to make sure that that doesn't happen to users. Because understanding is not output… We have to understand that humans are understanding machines, and that understanding is critical to the outputs being successful in the present and in the future.” — Chris Noessel, Power of Ten with Andy Polaine
Chris Noessel · 11 Nov 2026 Listen →
“I think it can be helpful for refinement. … I do not want it telling me what to do when I don't know what to do yet.” — Catt Small, Power of Ten with Andy Polaine
Catt Small · 23 Oct 2026 Listen →

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Power of Ten with Andy Polaine is hosted by Andy Polaine .

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