Artificial Wisdom
Tue Dec 30 2025
Technology is neither salvation nor threat on its own, it is an amplifier. Artificial intelligence can imitate language, pattern, and human systems, but imitation is not understanding, and acceleration is not discernment. In this episode, Ni’coel is joined by responsible-AI and international data-science leader Ricardo Baeza-Yates where they distinguish wisdom as Human Decision Intelligence: the capacity for reflective judgment in conditions of uncertainty, plurality, and consequence.
They explore how contemporary tools often remove the very conditions humans need to grow. They look at the rising tendency to outsource judgment, the difference between alignment and integrity; the risks of proxy data, and the widening divide between humans who develop sapience and those who surrender agency to machines.
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🔸Cohost: Ricardo Baeza-Yates is a a part-time WASP Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, as well as part-time professor at the departments of Engineering of Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and Computing Science of University of Chile in Santiago. He has been Director of Research at the Institute for Experiential AI of Northeastern University (2021-25) and VP of Research at Yahoo Labs (2006-16). He is a member of the AI Technology Policy committees of GPAI/OECD, ACM and IEEE. He is co-author of the best-seller Modern Information Retrieval textbook that won the ASIST 2012 Book of the Year award. He has won national scientific awards in Chile (2024) and Spain (2018). He has a Ph.D. in CS and his areas of expertise are responsible AI, web search and data mining plus data science and algorithms in general.
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Technology is neither salvation nor threat on its own, it is an amplifier. Artificial intelligence can imitate language, pattern, and human systems, but imitation is not understanding, and acceleration is not discernment. In this episode, Ni’coel is joined by responsible-AI and international data-science leader Ricardo Baeza-Yates where they distinguish wisdom as Human Decision Intelligence: the capacity for reflective judgment in conditions of uncertainty, plurality, and consequence. They explore how contemporary tools often remove the very conditions humans need to grow. They look at the rising tendency to outsource judgment, the difference between alignment and integrity; the risks of proxy data, and the widening divide between humans who develop sapience and those who surrender agency to machines. 🔸Explore the global learning hub: humandecisionintelligence.com 🔸Cohost: Ricardo Baeza-Yates is a a part-time WASP Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, as well as part-time professor at the departments of Engineering of Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and Computing Science of University of Chile in Santiago. He has been Director of Research at the Institute for Experiential AI of Northeastern University (2021-25) and VP of Research at Yahoo Labs (2006-16). He is a member of the AI Technology Policy committees of GPAI/OECD, ACM and IEEE. He is co-author of the best-seller Modern Information Retrieval textbook that won the ASIST 2012 Book of the Year award. He has won national scientific awards in Chile (2024) and Spain (2018). He has a Ph.D. in CS and his areas of expertise are responsible AI, web search and data mining plus data science and algorithms in general.