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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 Multiple readings Harvard ai faculty Markets & investment · 2 attributable reactions
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Developing AI field signal Development 1d ago
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AI skill degradation early results study

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

13 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Iris van Rooij
“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...” 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

Concern & critique

2 experts

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...”

2 experts discussed this · 6 posts
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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Established AI field signal Signal 13d ago
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Harvard ai faculty

13 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · James Grimmelmann
“What are we even doing here? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/b...” evidence ↗
13 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Iris van Rooij Eileen Clancy 🧿 James Grimmelmann Mél Hogan / The Data Fix Hagen Blix tante Michael Zimmer Daniel Solove +5
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2 experts · 22 posts · 4d ago
Iris van Rooij Andrew D Wilson
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“I did. The issue is simply is if someone simply lies, what do you do and in what basis?” evidence ↗
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Iris van Rooij: It is so interesting that people worry about enforcement. Honesty is one of the principles of scientifuc integrity. We ask applicants also to declare that everything in the grant is filled in truth…
Andrew D Wilson: Enforcement is a real issue with AI though. If you intend to have consequences for AI use, you need to be able to have a criterion for identifying it, and AI detection is not trivial.
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2 experts · 15 posts · 15d ago
Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest
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“> Are lecturers there to help students navigate their emotional journey through university, or are students there to help lecturers navigate emotional journeys? 🌈” evidence ↗
Olivia Guest: @olivia.science Here's a first draft of what your piece on anxiety made me think about. I will post it properly next week as a quote post to that. I've put all the "an old academic wistfully rememb…
Olivia Guest: > I have experience that is cousin to this also – of not being trusted. For example, I was once accused by a colleague of having “gone native” for my preference to support students rather than coll…
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