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Psyche
03.07.2026 Isabel Hempel 295

Episode 50: Is Artificial Intelligence Making Us Stupid?

Can we really trust machines when it comes to our thoughts and feelings? Artificial intelligence writes our texts, answers our questions—and sometimes even listens when no one else is around. But what does that do to our brains, our concentration, and our relationships? Does it make us more complacent, lonelier, or even more dependent?
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In our new podcast episode, Prof. Dr. Volker Busch, a neuroscientist and bestselling author, discusses how artificial intelligence is changing our brains, our concentration, and our relationships. After all, the more we outsource our thinking to chatbots, the more the way we interact with ourselves and each other changes.
 

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In this episode, you'll learn:
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  • Why AI Can Take a Mental Load Off Us, But Also Make Us More Lazy
  • What Happens to Concentration, Creativity, and Critical Thinking When We Outsource Them to Chatbots
  • Why Chatbots Can't Recognize Real Conflicts, Lies, or Nuances
  • How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Coaching, Counseling, and Therapy—and Where Its Limits Lie
  • The Role of AI in Loneliness and Emotional Intimacy
  • What Skills Do Children and Teens Need Today to Work with AI?
  • Human Abilities That Artificial Intelligence Can Never Replace
Prof. Dr. Volker Busch makes it clear: AI can help consolidate information and provide accessible guidance. But true development comes from friction, contradiction, questioning, and the experience of interacting with someone who picks up on nuances, body language, and inconsistencies. That is precisely what artificial intelligence cannot do.
 
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We talk to experts and provide you with practical tips to help you better cope with crises and challenges. 
 
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zero pme and Generation Ü: From retirement to working life

Retiree partial retirement
Leadership & HR
14.03.2024 Christin Müller 13522

pme and Generation Ü: From retirement to working life

By 2030, over eight million people will be of working age. Only around 5.5 million workers will join the labor market. Many companies are already feeling the effects of this huge skills gap. In order to anticipate this development at an early stage, the pme Familienservice Group is deliberately focusing on new ways of recruiting through a partnership with the "Generation Ü" job agency.

For some time now, pme Familienservice has been committed to keeping team members in employment - at their own request - after they retire. At the beginning of March, pme Familienservice launched a partnership with the job placement agency "Generation Ü", which helps to recruit people with extensive work experience. In future, the focus will be on more than 90 childcare and educational institutions across Germany.

Silver worker: From retirement to working life

At the 30 pme locations throughout Germany, Generation Ü will search for and place suitable "Üs" as a job placement service for retirement. Üs are women and men, generally between their late 50s and early 70s, who want to remain active towards the end of their working life or in retirement.

"Through the partnership with Generation Ü, pme Familienservice wants to focus even more strongly than before on the experience and motivation of older generations. This is an important component of our diversity strategy and should also help to counter the increasing shortage of skilled workers," says Alexa Ahmad, CEO of the pme Familienservice Group.

Who is Generation Ü?

Ü founder and former State Secretary Christian Ege says: "Generation Ü brings companies and Üs into contact and organizes the cooperation, hand-mediated and with an internal IT platform in which over 1200 Üs are currently registered".

Generation Ü offers SMEs and public employers in particular many advantages and credibility in the search, placement and recruitment of skilled workers over 55. Whether in the office, childcare, classroom, accounting, as a driver, in sales, production, technology or a doctor's surgery: the Üs fulfill many tasks and important projects reliably, with knowledge, drive and many years of experience in a wide variety of professions and areas. Just in a slightly different way than in conventional working life.