Speed Without Mastery: The Crisis of Expertise in the Age of AI

While AI accelerates results by acting as a thin client between intention and outcome, it dismantles the apprenticeship mechanism that historically transferred expertise across generations. Beyond job displacement, the elimination of review-based learning threatens the structural reproduction of professional competence itself—expertise cannot sustain without the iterative learning process it requires. As education pivots from knowledge transmission to AI interaction training, society faces an unprecedented crisis: how to cultivate the mastery and professional intuition that emerge from hard-won experience.