Evidence of AI-driven deskilling emerges in studies

A very simple reason why I’m not interested in incorporating this software into my work. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The study authors say that continuous exposure to such tools can cause clinicians to become "less motivated, less focused, and *less responsible* when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance". My emphasis: I think “less responsible” is the most worrying bit. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Who could have guessed that deskilling machines would harm learning? Governments & universities shilling for the AI industry should be ashamed.

'The findings, published last October in The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology, suggest that even highly skilled professionals might get worse at tasks that their job requires as they become more dependent on AI tools'. 1/2

"Evidence suggests that AI-driven ‘deskilling’ is starting to happen in medicine, computer science and other fields. Researchers are now discussing how to preserve important human expertise in the age of AI."

“people who use AI tools should be aware that they risk losing some of their skills, he adds. ‘There is no established solution against deskilling right now. It should be a very hot research topic in the next decade’.”🧪

Why do I avoid gen AI and think it is a fucked up attack on humans by a ruling class increasingly turning to fascism - used for deskilling/mass lay offs to reduce the value of skills - used for disinformation (trawls doing effective DDOS plus poisoning the information well)

some commentariat on the “AI deskilling” thing - memorization isn’t mastery. I’ve met plenty of certified whatever’s who passed a test saying they knew k8s or c# or whatever that I wouldn’t trust in my repo

A reminder that this deskilling *is the whole point*! AI is a weapon of class warfare used by billionaires against all working people.

lol “there is no established solution against deskilling right now” actually there is a very good solution. and get this: it’s super established www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“There is no established solution against deskilling right now.” But to be fair, deskilling people and make them dependent on AI is exactly the purpose of the AI companies! Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Have been thinking about CS education and AI use recently, and came across this article in Nature about AI and deskilling. www.nature.com/articles/d41... Related to CS education, in particular, it highlighted this recent study (pre-print available).

That's my main worry with those forays, use of LLM directly correlates with a decrease in effectiveness, tho it tends to be less strong with good engineers (www.nature.com/articles/d41...) Alas there are also the whole moral implications. Internet scraping is causing massive headaches to small

“There is no established solution against deskilling right now. It should be a very hot research topic in the next decade.” These AI hustlers are going to misdirect millions into research that will demonstrate what everyone who has actual skills already knows--practice makes perfect.

Yep! The study Nature refers here confirms your observations. It flat out states, after observing the skill erosion that “we did not find a statistically significant acceleration in completion time with AI assistance.” Truly is a waste of time. Deskilling ourselves for no benefit at all. 😞