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AI Is Making Us Dumber at Work | Science News
New research warns that over-reliance on AI at work may be eroding human expertise—especially in high-stakes fields like medicine and software engineering. Doctors using AI for colonoscopies detected issues well, but their performance plummeted without it, revealing how quickly skills can atrophy. Similarly, engineers who used AI coding assistants performed well but didn’t actually learn or grow their skills. Experts fear this “deskilling” trend could undermine foundational knowledge across knowledge-based professions, urging users to stay engaged with core competencies and not blindly trust…
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