{
  "title": "AI assistants: what happens to learning the job?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/assistants-ia-preserver-apprentissage-metier-berne-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2026-02-07",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "An assistant can make production easier without sustaining its user’s skills. Research suggests distinguishing the quality of the immediate output from the learning that remains.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Building AI Assistants and Agents Without Coding",
  "place": {
    "name": "Bern",
    "region": "Berne",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Norman J."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The paradox of a skill exercised less often",
      "point": "Lisanne Bainbridge (1983, Automatica) analyses a difficulty with automation: operators remain necessary for situations the system cannot handle, while their opportunities to practise may diminish."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "One might conclude that all manual work must be retained to preserve professional expertise."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the evidence cannot establish",
      "point": "Verbal memory experiments and an analysis of industrial automation cannot quantify the effects of a generative assistant on professional learning."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Berne",
      "point": "As part of SHR’s programme « Créer ses assistants et agents IA sans coder », a pilot in Berne could use fictional or authorised case materials relevant to the federal administration, public health, telecoms or precision manufacturing."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Graf",
      "year": "1978",
      "source": "Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Bainbridge",
      "year": "1983",
      "source": "Automatica"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 443,
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    "en": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/assistants-ia-preserver-apprentissage-metier-berne-en",
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    "it": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/assistants-ia-preserver-apprentissage-metier-berne-it"
  },
  "relatedPages": {
    "programme": "https://www.shr.swiss/formation/assistants-agents-ia/berne",
    "city": "https://www.shr.swiss/formations-ville/berne",
    "blog": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog"
  },
  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}