The Illusion of AI — and Why "Good Enough" Isn't Good Enough

The biggest con in AI right now isn't a scam. It's a seduction. AI sounds authoritative, looks polished, and moves fast enough to bypass critical thinking.

Pip Bingemann founded Springboards and is building a model for divergent thinking. Using the psychology, the research and the maths the hype skips over, he'll show why fluency fools smart people, why models fail up to 10x more often on the work that actually matters, and why tools designed to make us more productive are invisibly engineering distinctiveness and effectiveness out of the work. Pip will argue that we're sleepwalking into a "Sameness Crisis," hiding inside the productivity boom.

You'll leave with the language, the proof and the permission to slow down, plus practical ways to use AI without surrendering your judgment, taste or edge. Because "good" isn't good enough when "decent" is free.