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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 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 ↗
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Alondra Nelson Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Djamé 🟥 Scott McGrath Marielza Sasha Costanza-Chock Eileen Clancy 🧿 +5
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“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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4 experts · 45 posts · 1d ago
Olivia Guest Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) Dwayne Monroe Neil Turkewitz
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“what are you even arguing about? plastics and AI and the environment are related, zoom out a bit” evidence ↗
Olivia Guest: If these chatbots were conscious (they are 100% not) all they do is kill kids, make CSAM, scam people, hack companies. Not some kind soul deserving of anything. But of course AI systems are inanima…
Olivia Guest: Just choppy
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2 experts · 13 posts · 4d ago
Olivia Guest Anthony Moser
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“You can even ignore them. Literally nothing happens but rudeness (even that's debatable) — but using AI? That's whacky. I refuse to believe except in very rare cases (which do exist) that any junio…” evidence ↗
Olivia Guest: You can even ignore them. Literally nothing happens but rudeness (even that's debatable) — but using AI? That's whacky. I refuse to believe except in very rare cases (which do exist) that any junio…
Anthony Moser: pretending to do it is ruder than ignoring the request
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2 experts · 8 posts · 5d ago
Olivia Guest Baldur Bjarnason
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“Picking a side and supporting your people is arguably more important than trying to attain some Edenic no-“AI” purity. Are you on the side of the fascists, polluters, and tech CEOs? Or are you on t…” evidence ↗
Baldur Bjarnason: What so many people sound like: “avoiding sugar completely is impossible so we should be eating all the sugar all the time” They’re missing the point of avoiding work made with “AI”, which is twofo…
Baldur Bjarnason: Picking a side and supporting your people is arguably more important than trying to attain some Edenic no-“AI” purity. Are you on the side of the fascists, polluters, and tech CEOs? Or are you on t…
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