CHAPTER 7: AI AND OUR SOCIETY – WILL THE RESULT BE PROFESSIONAL, ETHICAL, AND SOCIAL DESKILLING, OR UPSKILLING?
“Knowledge that is not practiced is lost.”
Brian Patrick Green
Deskilling is loosely defined as the loss of skill, judgment, or initiative causing an individual to become less proficient in a particular task or activity. Deskilling is not a recent phenomenon.
For example, from the mid-1700s to the nineteenth century, there was increasing mechanization of the factory system that mass-produced textiles, threatening the jobs and livelihoods of skilled workers. These new technologies resulted in a loss of work and a deskilling of a large number of textile workers. Resistance to the change led to worker uprisings that rocked the wool and ...
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