Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in—and they’re not good ^28%

Scientific American - By Mariana Lenharo, Nature magazine - 7/5/2026, 12:00 PM

Negativity Bias 24.2% - Hasty Generalization 20.8% - Pessimism Bias 19.7%

As more professionals begin to rely on artificial-intelligence tools in their work, could their hard-earned skills atrophy? That possibility is a growing concern for medical specialists, computer scientists and other workers. Seventy per cent of nurses and 77% of physicians, for example, are worried about losing their skills because of... more