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AI use insidiously undermines professionals' skills
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Artificial intelligence has taken over the role of assistant in many professional fields. Doctors, researchers and software developers rely on it in their work. At worst, this results in a phenomenon described by researchers as deskilling: people's professional skills deteriorate
Artificial intelligence has taken over the role of assistant in many professional fields. Doctors, researchers and software developers rely on it in their work. At worst, this results in a phenomenon described by researchers as deskilling: people's professional skills deteriorate as they outsource their tasks to AI.
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