📣 Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good
Author: Mariana Lenharo
Abstract
Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.
As more professionals begin to rely on artificial-intelligence tools in their work, could their hard-earned skills atrophy?
That possibility is a growing concern for medical specialists, computer scientists and other workers. Seventy per cent of nurses and 77% of physicians, for example, are worried about losing their skills because of over-reliance on AI systems, according to a survey of US health-care workers published earlier this month1.
Their fear might be justified. 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.
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