We’ve lived through a skills apocalypse before. The solution might look like a flight simulator

AI is eroding hard-won skills the way cockpit automation eroded pilots’ instincts. Aviation’s answer wasn’t to ban the autopilot. It was to build a place to put novices back on the controls.

Roughly 2,400 years ago, Socrates warned that a dangerous new technology would hollow out the human mind. In Plato’s Phaedrus, he tells the story of the Egyptian god Theuth, who presents writing to the king as a gift that will make people wiser. The king doesn’t agree. Writing, he replies, will do the opposite: People will stop exercising their memory because they’ll trust the marks on the page instead. They will have the appearance of wisdom without the........

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