Minas Karamanis depicts a scenario where one PhD graduate does all her work by hand while the other uses AI. On paper, both had exactly the same outcome, thoiugh arguably, one understood where the other did not. "The real threat," writes Karamanis, "is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding. Who know what buttons to press but not why those buttons exist. Who can get a paper through peer review but can't sit in a room with a colleague and explain, from the ground up, why the third term in their expansion has the sign that it does." This is not a new problem. There are different levels of understanding. AI gives us access to tools without requiring the deepest level of understanding. That doesn't mean the understanding disappears. Via Tom Czarniecki.
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