Skill Erosion
Human-AI RelationshipProvisional
The observed or perceived atrophy of specific skills (spelling, recall, manual processes) attributed to AI or automation handling those tasks
Evidence
“My ability to spell certain things has kind of went down because I'm just so used to, oh, okay, it sees what I'm trying to do and it fixes it for me.”
“Yeah, I think that could happen. You know, instead of going through material myself, notes and sort of collating myself and thinking that out. Yeah, I could see that skill going downhill. It's almost like my handwriting skills gone downhill as I type more and more for text. I noticed that dexterity isn't quite what it should be sometimes.”
“I can see the same sort of parallel. Yeah, for sure. And that's not a good thing, especially for aging populations. You know, they need to keep that brain strong.”