I wonder how the marketing manager got to her position without using AI. She must have had at least a decade of previous experience. Why she did not build on that to answer the client's probing questions is a mystery.
We're all complicit in taking the easy route most of the time. We have to consciously derive agency and make the effort, even when easier modes are available.
The lines between learning to use AI and building one's own critical faculties is blurring. How do people know what they have to change and improve upon if they haven't actually experienced the problem in the real world talking to people?
Perhaps that's one of the ways forward. Ask people to derive and defend their own conclusions without resorting to AI tools. But when it begins with college assignments, it's tough to implement.
And that is the foundational issue
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