According to danah boyd, "When highly trained professionals now babysit machines, they lose their skills. Retaining skills requires practice. How do we ensure that those skills are not lost?" She uses as an example the case of airline pilots who are expected to take over in an emergency wen the autopilot fails, but have been so dependent on the autopilot they no longer have the skills to be effective. As subtext, and not relevant to the main argument, she creates a division between 'camp automation', which argues AI will take over everything, and 'camp augmentation', which argues AI will continue to have a 'human in the loop'. The deskilling argument is relevant motly to camp augmentation. Laura Hilliger responds.
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