Using AI tools can ‘deskill’ certain health workers – study

“To our knowledge this is the first study to suggest a negative impact of regular AI use on healthcare professionals’ ability to complete a patient-relevant task in medicine of any kind,” said one of the study authors, Dr Marcin Romanczyk, Academy of Silesia in Poland.

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I suspect that AI may ultimately de-skill people in many different fields and also prevent people from developing skills in the first place (including critical thinking skills) due to over-reliance on AI.

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I’ve seen it happen to my best buddy :cry: He’s stopped trying to find solutions by himself, he always runs to ChatGPT for advice and a pat on the back…

Edit: he doesn’t work in healthcare though

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I do think AI will eventually replace people in base to intermediate roles, with the highest human role simply serving to provide oversight.

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This is a wider problem

You cut out entry level positions you have no people learning and reaching senior status

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Yes, but you all are missing the big picture here. Where else are we going to get 6 fingered Jesus’s and misspelled words despite how many times you type the prompt in?

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