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by Saline9515 1 hour ago
Please define "AI fluency"? From what I see, it's mainly being able to write and read at a high level, and having a strong media litteracy and critical reasoning sense something you don't need AI for.

And having no TV and no smartphone at home and at school is likely the best way to acquire it.

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By AI fluency I mean basically knowing how to drive the tools, an intuition for what the tools can and can't do, when to use AI vs doing it yourself, plus detecting when output is wrong, knowing what to verify, etc.
I feel like "detecting when output is wrong, knowing what to verify" is the key skill, but it's also extremely demanding.

You need to have a very solid understanding of things like sources, and bias, and how to evaluate if something is likely to be true, and how to get to a credible answer.

Given the number of people online who try to read arguments with screenshots of a ChatGPT conversation, this is not an obvious process at all.

All of those skills have a half life of like 8 months.