Lisanne Bainbridge Called This in 1983 - we have the rules already

After endoscopists started using AI detection tools routinely, their own unassisteddetection rate fell from 28.4% to 22.4%. Most professions have no number like that —which doesn't mean it isn't happening to them.Dale Leszczynski and Nick McIntosh work through a claim: nearly every AI problemorganisations think they're discovering right now was described decades ago and thenignored. Lisanne Bainbridge wrote five pages on automation and skill decay in 1983.Shadow IT research called end-user workarounds twenty years back. Learning science hasa century on desirable difficulties and why struggle is the mechanism, not the obstacle.The episode names where each of those bodies of work still holds, and — more usefully —the three places they genuinely break: a collapsed audit surface, non-deterministicoutput with no ground truth to check against, and an artefact that mutates faster thanany procurement cycle can finish.Chapters00:00 Bainbridge, 1983, and the problem everyone thinks is new02:39 Two claims about AI, both wrong04:03 Sui generis: treating AI as of its own kind05:38 Automation complacency and skill atrophy06:28 The colonoscopy deskilling study07:36 Fabricated citations and automation bias08:17 Where Bainbridge breaks: no dial, no correct state09:24 Terence Tao's helicopter10:03 Shadow AI, and a confession11:36 A workaround is a signal13:43 The EDUCAUSE numbers14:34 Learning science, the field ignored hardest15:15 Jason Lodge and Leslie Loble16:52 Bjork's desirable difficulties17:55 Judging quality by surface fluency18:26 370,000 essays and idea homogenisation19:51 The steelman: is AI different in kind?21:23 AI as a stress test on science we never applied23:26 The three genuine fracture points25:43 The work has been done. Nobody's reading it.Referenced in this episode[LINKS TBC — Dale to supply: Bainbridge 1983; Lancet Gastro colonoscopy study;EDUCAUSE/AIR report; Lodge & Loble ANQDE report; Charlotin hallucination database;Tao on Dwarkesh Podcast]Subscribe for new episodes of Adjunct Intelligence.🎙️ Adjunct Intelligence is the weekly briefing for higher-ed professionals who want AI as a cheat code—not a headache.Every episode:• Real tests of AI tools in education and professional workflows• Fast, Monday-morning actions you can actually try• Clear signal through the noise (no hype, no jargon)👉 Subscribe on [YouTube] | [Apple Podcasts] | [Spotify]👉 Share this with a colleague who still says “I’ll figure AI out later”👉 Join the conversation on LinkedIn with #AdjunctIntelligenceStay curious. Stay intelligent. Stay the human in the loop.