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In this episode of the Out of Office podcast, Lumina Learning founder and CEO Dr Stuart Das and business psychologist Jonathan Cannon debate a century of psychometrics - from pencil-and-paper questionnaires (including one that hinged on Clint Eastwood versus John Wayne) through locked filing
cabinets of scoring keys, the shift online, and today's animated, interactive digital portraits.

They trace the bigger change beneath the technology: psychometrics moving from judgment-led assessment and recruitment to development and coaching, democratised from the executive suite to everyone in the organisation.

The two hosts disagree productively about what AI will bring - on-the-fly customised portraits you can talk to via avatars and chat, versus a healthy scepticism that the right application hasn't arrived yet - and agree on the risks: without quality and guardrails, poor AI-driven assessment could undermine decades of trust, and companies that fail to become technology businesses will be left behind.