I finally got around to reading the paper How AI Impacts Skill Formation last night. The data is from a very small group of participants, but this is common for these kinds of studies. The summary is that the struggle to understand is necessary even for short term recall. The interaction patterns listed on pages 12-14 are useful, especially so for mentoring and self-learning.
I liked this exoskeleton analogy
For data science tasks, Wiles et al. described the impact of AI on non-technical consultants as an “exoskeleton”, the enhanced technical abilities enabled by AI did not persist when workers no longer had access to AI.
Also fascinating is that in the pilot study some 25% of participants surreptitiously used AI even thou they were told not too. Cheating really is endemic.
