9 months ago
Experts Warn AI Over-Reliance Weakens Core Skills
Experts at a meeting in Mumbai talked about how people are becoming too dependent on artificial intelligence (AI).
They said that when AI is used for everything, people might forget how to think and make decisions on their own.
For example, when AI tools were not available for a short time, many people had trouble doing simple tasks.
The experts also said that it's important to teach people how to question AI and not just trust it blindly.
They believe that using AI should be about building better judgment, not just relying on machines.
Students at the meeting showed how they built AI tools in just two days, even without coding experience.
Experts warn that over-reliance on AI may weaken core skills and judgment.
Faculty members observed increased dependence on AI tools even for basic tasks.
A cloud outage highlighted users' struggles to complete simple analysis without AI assistance.
BITSoM professor Daniel Ringel emphasized the importance of questioning AI outputs to avoid dependence.
Industry guests noted that India's uneven AI adoption reflects labor conditions and technical issues.
- Who
- Experts and faculty at BITSoM, Mumbai
- What
- Warning about the potential weakening of core skills due to over-reliance on AI
- Where
- BITSoM, Mumbai
- When
- During an AI roundtable held at BITSoM
- Why
- To highlight the importance of maintaining human judgment and critical thinking in the age of AI
Key facts
- Event
- AI roundtable at BITSoM, Mumbai
- Key Speaker
- Dr. Saravanan Kesavan, Dean of BITSoM
- Concern
- Over-reliance on AI weakening core skills
- Example of Dependence
- Users struggled during a cloud outage
- Teaching Approach
- Encouraging learners to question AI outputs
- Industry Observation
- India's uneven AI adoption reflects labor conditions
- BITSoM Initiative
- Rapid AI-build exercise for MBA students
Quotes
Daniel Ringel
BITSoM professor teaching AI-related subjects
“The brain behaves like a muscle. If you let AI think for you every day, that muscle weakens”
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“Accepting what the model gives you is the fastest path to dependence”
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Srinivas Rao Pingali
Head of BITSoM Research in AI and Innovation Lab
“We are trying to build judgement, not dependence”
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“The aim is to teach people when to trust AI and when to push back”
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Dr. Saravanan Kesavan
Dean of BITSoM
“AI is moving faster than our understanding of its social effects, if we teach only tools and not context, we will create managers who trust outputs more than their own reasoning”
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Faculty member
Faculty member present at the AI roundtable
“You could see how quickly core skills weaken when a tool becomes the default”
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Tech representative
Industry guest at the AI roundtable
“Final decisions still sit with humans because accountability does not disappear”
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BITSoM student
Student who demonstrated her project at the AI roundtable
“I don’t come from a STEM background and I don’t know coding, but my partner and I were able to finish the assignment in two days. I never knew I could ever build something like this without having learnt to code”
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