Does better work always mean better workers?
But AI is already changing how on-the-job learning works.
Key points
- Judgment is what sets senior professionals apart from their junior peers.
- On the one hand, empirical studies in radiology, business problem-solving, job-seeker writing, and legal education show that when AI tools are thoughtfully embedded into training workflows, less-experienced workers can improve their independent performance.
- In “Does AI Assistance Enhance or Erode Expertise?
- Evidence from a Three-Month Field Experiment in Patent Drafting”, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, we describe a field experiment used to capture changes in both short-term productivity and longer-term skill building that occur as a result of AI usage in the highly expertise-intensive profession of intellectual property law.
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- [1]Does better work always mean better workers?Google Research Blog · Oct 7, 08:19 PM
But AI is already changing how on-the-job learning works.
Judgment is what sets senior professionals apart from their junior peers.
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