When everyone gets a genie — learning to handle expertise you didn't earn

As AI tools democratize access to expertise, the critical challenge shifts from gaining knowledge to exercising judgment about which outputs are reliable—a pattern mirrored historically by technologies like typing, which became commoditized until the underlying skill (writing) separated from the tool. Each generation's baseline competency moves up a layer of abstraction, making previous "essential" knowledge optional, while broader access paradoxically increases both usage and the proportion of poor-quality work, creating a need for new filtering mechanisms to distinguish genuine expertise from plausible-sounding output.

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