> The affordances of AI systems have the effect of eroding expertise

I have actually seen this be a tremendously good thing. Historically, "expertise" and state of the art was reserved solely for those people with higher education and extensive industry experience. Now anyone can write a python script to do a task that maybe they would have had to pay an "expert" to do in the past. Not everyone can learn python or be a computer scientist engineer. Some people are meant to go to beauty school. But I feel like everything has become so much more accessible to those people that previously had no access.

I liken it to the search engine revolution, or even free open source software. The software developed as open source over the last decades are not toys. They are state of the art. And you can read the code and learn from them even if you would never have had the opportunity for schooling or industry to write and use such software yourself.

> Historically, "expertise" and state of the art was reserved solely for those people with higher education and extensive industry experience ... I feel like everything has become so much more accessible to those people that previously had no access.

Might you ever ride in a car, need brain surgery, or live within the blast radius of a nuclear power station?