AI is making people less confident in professionals such as doctors and teachers
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AI as a parallel authority is eroding automatic deference to doctors and teachers—patients and students now routinely cross-check advice in real time. Any expert-facing product or service needs to assume a more skeptical, AI-augmented user and design for transparency, evidence, and second-opinion workflows.
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