This episode takes the deskilling trap from chapter six of the book (“The Collaboration Demands More of Me, Not Less”) and collides it with what the research is saying right now: a Nature news feature on early deskilling evidence across medicine and software engineering, the Lancet colonoscopy study behind it, and the survey showing 70 percent of nurses and 77 percent of physicians worry about losing skills to AI reliance. The researchers say no established solution against deskilling exists yet. Aaron argues the early shape of one has been sitting in the scaffolded-engagement research all along — including the Wharton experiment where the group forced to think first improved 127 percent and kept every gain when the AI was removed, while the easy-access group ended up worse than they started. Plus the story of pointing two AI models at all fifty-eight of the book’s arguments before printing, and what that adversarial review demonstrates about using AI to sharpen judgment instead of replacing it.
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