AI has been extremely useful at teaching me things. Granted I needed to already know how to learn and work through the math myself, but when I get stuck it is more helpful than any other resource on the internet.

> To become good at something you have to work through the lower rungs and acquire skill. AI does all those lower level jobs, puts the people who need those jobs for experience on the street, and robs us of future experts.

You can still do that with AI, you give yourself assignments and then use the AI as a resource when you get stuck. As you get better you ask the AI less and less. The fact that the AI is wrong sometimes is like test that allows you to evaluate if you are internalizing the skills or just trusting the AI.

If we ever have AIs which don't hallucinate, I'd want that added back in as a feature.

Whether ladder raising is benefitting people now or later or by how much - I don't know.

But I share your concerns that:

AI doing the lesser tasks of [whatever] ->

less(no?) humans will do those tasks ->

less(no?) experienced humans to further the state of the art ->

automation-but-stagnation.

But tragedy of the commons says I have to teach my kid to use AI!

When you have an unfair system, every technology advancement will benefit the few more than the many.

So off course AI falls into this realm.

It's the trajectory of automation for the past few decades. Automate many jobs out of existence, and add a much smaller set of higher-skill jobs.

Definitely. I think it's worse than that too. I have a feeling it's going to expose some people higher up that ladder who really shouldn't be. So it won't just be junior people who struggle but also "senior" people as well. I think that only deepens the inequality.

AI can teach you the lower rungs more effectively than what existed before.