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The AI risk of losing the skills you’ve mastered over the years
When it becomes our GPS, it dulls the mind’s ability to handle complex problems. That needs attention.
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Clearly, AI has accelerated learning – but has it sharpened critical thinking, or is this precious ability that sets humans apart now at the risk of atrophy?
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Tan Eng Chye
Walk into any seminar room on Kent Ridge campus and you can feel the ground shifting. Not because the hunger to learn is waning or the embers of curiosity dimming, but because the very idea of education has been turned on its head, thanks to AI.
Learning was like scaling a peak – you researched, debated, lost your way, meandered, regained your bearings, kept climbing and finally earned the panorama.
