"Nobody will really know math": The AI incentive argument for skill atrophy
birchlse · x · 2026-09-12
A shared dialogue captures the skill-atrophy concern around AI: M worries that AI will erode the incentives to truly learn math, N counters that everyone will be able to do math with AI, and M insists that actually doing math requires understanding it. The reposter sides with M.
The exchange distills the debate over whether AI tools will hollow out human competencies rather than merely amplify them.
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