General Discussion

Just ask your AI whether you should remove, say, a wart. Prove to yourself that it gives you a smart answer. Will it be a better one than you would have gotten by searching Google in the old way or searching YouTube? Yeah, obviously. But decide for yourself.

Yes, of course, skills can be lost to AI. It can make big mistakes. It can create horrors sometimes and fantastic improvements usually. Old search engines never combined well with human intelligence after the innocent first few years. The engines became a magnifier of rank stupidity, anger, grifting, and delusion.

The pre-Internet world wasn't exactly paradise. It was probably better than the post-Internet, pre-AI era, though. Pre-Internet, unwise people tended to look to wise people for guidance. Then there were books and file cabinets full of files.