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AI is used by many businesses and helps people to diagnose medical problems, plan meals and draft emails<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By Murray Sherriffs<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some see AI as a tool that frees up time for other activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Others fear that offloading our thinking to a computer will dull our capacity to think for ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

University of Waterloo behavioral scientist Trent Cash<\/a> says that one’s learned skills\u2014how to work through math problems or detect polyps while performing a colonoscopy\u2014may indeed atrophy, if taken over by AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said in a piece in Trends in Cognitive Sciences<\/a><\/em> that \u201cif we offload a specific skill to AI, we\u2019re probably not going to retain that skill.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But emerging evidence suggests that the type of AI tool and how it\u2019s used can make the difference in a person\u2019s ability to hang on to or pick up skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AI may be most likely to weaken our skills when it replaces the mental work needed to practice that skill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, staying mentally engaged using AI feedback or examples while learning may preserve, and perhaps even enhance skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cash is hard-pressed to believe that AI will bring about the doomsday scenario which some envision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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