"AI appears to be making workers faster, more efficient, and more productive on paper. However, according to Mehdi Paryavi, CEO of the International Data Center Authority, which advises companies and governments on building the data centers that power AI, it may also be quietly eroding workers' confidence in their job skills. Paryavi told Buisness Insider that excessive and poorly designed AI use in workplaces is driving what he called a "quiet cognitive erosion" and "down-skilling.""
""There used to be a notion called 'thinking outside the box,'" he said. "That notion will soon cease to exist when everyone draws on all their creativity, analytics, and innovation from a single box called AI." Confidence is the first thing to go Paryavi believes the most immediate casualty of heavy AI reliance is self-belief. "If you come to believe that AI writes better than you and thinks smarter than you, you will lose your own confidence in yourself," he said."
AI can increase apparent speed, efficiency, and productivity, while simultaneously causing workers to defer core tasks to AI. Excessive and poorly designed AI use in workplaces drives "quiet cognitive erosion" and "down-skilling." Reliance on a single AI source risks replacing individual creativity, analytics, and innovation. Self-belief can decline as workers begin to defer writing, analysis, and judgment to AI systems and rely less on skills developed through reading, writing, learning, and observation. Loss of confidence compounds over time, leaving workers feeling insufficient without AI and reducing opportunities to maintain and practice expertise.
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