How does professional expertise actually form in AI-enabled environments?
As AI automates more routine tasks, the traditional developmental pathways — exposure, gradual responsibility, correction over time, and safe failure — are quietly changing.
The concern is not sudden job loss. It may be something more structural: the scaffolding through which judgement and capability develop is itself shifting.
There is an important distinction between performance and capability. AI-assisted work can appear highly capable. But can the underlying reasoning be reproduced independently, under pressure, and with incomplete information?
These are questions not only for technologists, but for organisations, educators, and institutions more broadly.
CognateUK explores what this means for how learning environments, early-career development, and the conditions under which genuine expertise continues to form — in a new article published on Cambridge Network.
Read the full article → https://www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/news/scaffolding-expertise-rethinking-capability-formation-ai-enabled-system