Something is happening to the way we think. One outsourced decision at a time. The idea of cognitive offload is not new. Writing extended memory and calculators extended arithmetic. But AI is different. It doesn’t just carry information. It carries judgment. Reasoning. Learning. The very capabilities that once define human intelligence.

In this moment-critical keynote, Amy Fane Hervey draws on the frontier of cognitive science and human–machine collaboration to show leaders exactly where the line is. How to use AI to extend human intelligence without surrendering it. How to tell the difference between a tool that amplifies your thinking and one that quietly replaces it. And what the organisations that get this right are doing differently.