"Build apps without coding experience! Create McKinsey-quality presentations in minutes! Write novels that sell! Trade stocks like a Wall Street veteran! The promises are familiar to anyone who spends any time online. And really, there is just one promise underpinning all the others. This is the most seductive promise of the artificial intelligence revolution: that generative AI can turn novices into experts."
"The truth is that AI doesn't create expertise- it amplifies it. Give an expert access to effective generative AI tools and they become superhuman in their domain. Give a novice the same tools and they become ... a dangerously confident novice. For example, a novice might give ChatGPT the prompt: "Write an article about innovation." In response, the AI will produce something fluent: a text with perfect grammar, logical flow, all the right buzzwords. But it's empty calories."
Generative AI amplifies existing expertise, enabling skilled practitioners to produce higher-quality work far more rapidly. Novices can use the same tools to generate fluent, polished outputs that lack original insight, authentic voice, and audience understanding. Experts use AI to research missed viewpoints, request structural alternatives, and probe for weaknesses, spotting and correcting hallucinations quickly because of deep domain knowledge. Mastery arises from deliberate, repeated practice, not shortcuts. Relying on AI without underlying skill risks producing superficially convincing but low-value results and fosters dangerous overconfidence among unskilled users.
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