Using AI Isn’t the Same as Understanding AI — And That Skills Gap Is Growing Using AI Isn’t the Same as Understanding AI — And That Skills Gap Is Growing Artificial intelligence has moved remarkably quickly from something we talked about to something we simply use. Employees are drafting emails with AI, analysing documents, generating presentations, writing code, conducting research and automating everyday tasks. Students are using it to learn. Entrepreneurs are using it to build businesses. Organisations are incorporating AI into workflows that, only a few years ago, were entirely human-driven. But there is an important question hiding behind all this adoption: Do we actually understand the technology we are using? Because knowing how to type a prompt into an AI tool is not the same thing as being AI literate. And that distinction is beco...