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Multiple readings Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions
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AI skill degradation early results study

Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Alondra Nelson, Scott McGrath
“I find the research increasingly compelling — this week's example being a case in point: www.nature.com/articles/d41... I look forward to reading your book and having these concerns placed in the context of earlier technological transitions and their attend…” evidence ↗
13 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Alondra Nelson Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Djamé 🟥 Scott McGrath Marielza Sasha Costanza-Chock Eileen Clancy 🧿 +5
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Multiple readings

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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“I find the research increasingly compelling — this week's example being a case in point: www.nature.com/articles/d41... I look forward to reading your book and having these concerns placed in the context of earlier technological transitions and their attend…”

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“What a surprise ….. “Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...”

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Edouard Machery: The literature on cognitive offloading and deskilling should be taken with a serious grain of salt. See literature on video games in the 1980s, see Haidt style literature on social media. The last …
Alondra Nelson: I find the research increasingly compelling — this week's example being a case in point: www.nature.com/articles/d41... I look forward to reading your book and having these concerns placed in the c…
Edouard Machery: The issue, in my opinion, is publication bias and p-hacking. The literature is clearly titled toward finding negative effects - this is what gets in the news etc. As a result I don’t think we can t…
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14 experts · 130 posts · 13d ago
Marc Lanctot Olivia Guest Sarah T Roberts, PhD Pwnallthethings Mike Caulfield Colin Adam Wiemerslage rev. howard arson
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“there are a lot of very serious concerns about LLMs, but "they might not be reliable at math" is one folks should bury and move on from quickly” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Questions & unknowns · 4 Opportunity & adoption · 2 Concern & critique · 1
Sarah T Roberts, PhD: Try teaching college students. You won’t be quite so dismissive then.
Pwnallthethings: I think the "LLMs can't reason" stuff is mostly sophism these days. They plainly do not "reason" in the way humans do, and are certainly not always correct or good at it, but they are also doing th…
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6 experts · 21 posts · 20d ago
Jessica Hullman Joe Bak-Coleman Berna Devezer Dan Goodman tj mahr 🤘 Andrew D Wilson
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“Oh now I’m actually intellectually curious about collective behavior in accounting, fraud detection etc.” evidence ↗
Shared emphasis Research & technical analysis · 2
Joe Bak-Coleman: I don’t get the “I’m so flooded with peer reviews I simply must use AI” take. Just uhh turn them down? Click decline.
Jessica Hullman: Many people seem to have forgotten they have agency at all.
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2 experts · 17 posts · 20d ago
Dr Keith Wilson 🏳️‍🌈 Andrew D Wilson
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“Students need room to fail as they work to get better, so failing isn’t a crisis. That’s actually been surprisingly hard to provide in HE these days! But space and time to do the hard stuff properl…” evidence ↗
Andrew D Wilson: I take it as a basic fact that there’s no policy I can write that will stop my students using AI, and the fact it’s impossible to definitely catch AI use means it will always be an option they cons…
Andrew D Wilson: Things in a class policy might help - point out how it removes them from the process and how that’s the educationally important bit, all that sort of good stuff. But that won’t solve the issue, the…
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