There is a lot of talk lately about the risk of over reliance on AI. The problem being that over using AI hurts our skills development and expertise. I think the issue is not using AI with a critical eye not losing our skills.
Even as AI is becoming more autonomous and capable of many tasks we do everyday, I still view it as a productivity booster 🚀 or enabler 💪 instead of a replacement for human work and expertise. Think about a doctor, a lawyer, an accountant. Would you feel comfortable for AI to prescribe you drugs or defend you at court? Even if you were, who would be accountable for mistakes? Even for driving we might continue to use humans for the same reason, see the pilots.
You can certainly use AI to ask for a health or law advice hence AI being an enabler, even asking AI to code a software product without an engineer but what will you do when you have paying customers using that product? Is AI going to maintain and support it? Most likely not so this is why I say that AI is a productivity booster for experts 🚀 and enabler for non experts 💪
The risk then becomes using AI with no critical eye in both cases. This leads to new problems across all professions. I have even seen humans hallucinating what AI told them which was completely out of context. As such this is the risk we need to be careful about when AI is being used ‼️