Business Insider's Sarah E. Needleman reports a worry surfacing among leaders: as employees lean on AI for more of the day-to-day, the underlying skills, judgment, and craft start to thin out. Use it for everything, and you may lose the ability to check its work.
Jeremy Korst names the bind directly: "There's tension among leaders around whether AI is becoming a crutch." The same tool that lifts output can hollow out capability if no one designs for both.
The way we read it, this is a Core problem: workforce proficiency and role redesign, not tooling. The fix isn't less AI. It's deliberate role design that keeps people fluent in the judgment AI can't own, so the organization gains capability and output together instead of trading one for the other.
So what: Track more than adoption. If your people are using AI more but getting sharper less, you're building dependence, not capability.