How AI Impacts Skill Formation
7 days ago
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- AI assistance leads to productivity gains, especially for novice workers.
- Heavy reliance on AI may hinder skill acquisition in supervising AI.
- Experiments show AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging without significant efficiency gains.
- Full delegation of tasks to AI improves productivity but reduces learning.
- Six AI interaction patterns identified; three preserve learning outcomes with AI assistance.
- AI-enhanced productivity is not a shortcut to competence; careful adoption is needed to preserve skill formation, especially in safety-critical domains.