A.I. and the new deskilling wave

I have an essay in tomorrow’s Wall Street Journalin which Iexaminehow an overdependence on software issapping the talents of professionals and argue for a more humanisticapproach to programming and automation. The piece begins:

Artificial intelligence has arrived. Today’s computers are discerning and sharp. They can sense the environment, untangle knotty problems, make subtle judgments and learn from experience. They don’t think the way we think—they’re still as mindless as toothpicks—but they...