📘 Silent Erosion — Self-Assessment

Is AI Quietly Eroding Your Career?

A 10-question diagnostic based on the book's three erosion frameworks — measure your risk level now

10Questions
3Erosion Types
4Risk Levels

This assessment is based on the three erosion frameworks from Silent Erosion by Seungbin Yim, Ph.D. — Cognitive Atrophy, Expertise Debt, and Trust Erosion.

Answer honestly. There are no right or wrong answers — the goal is to see your current state clearly, before erosion goes further.

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Q 01
Cognitive Atrophy
When I need to start a task from scratch without AI, I find it difficult to write the first sentence or take the first step.
Emails, proposals, reports — needing to ask AI before I can even begin
Q 02
Cognitive Atrophy
When asked "Why did you decide this?", I struggle to explain the reasoning clearly.
AI wrote or structured it — but I can't articulate the logic behind it
Q 03
Cognitive Atrophy
Since I started using AI regularly, my confidence in doing things independently has actually decreased.
Productivity went up, but the feeling that "I can do this myself" quietly faded
Q 04
Cognitive Atrophy
For market research or competitive analysis, I ask AI to summarize first rather than searching through sources myself.
The 3-hour process of reading, sensing trends, and forming judgment — replaced by a 15-minute AI summary
Q 05
Expertise Debt
Over the past year, I've had noticeably fewer opportunities to learn by making mistakes and fixing them myself.
The cycle of trying, failing, correcting — replaced by AI's instant first draft
Q 06
Expertise Debt
My actual independent capability feels narrower than what someone at my career stage should have.
Years have passed, but it feels like "observation" accumulated — not real experience
Q 07
Expertise Debt
High-stakes moments without AI — promotions, job interviews, leading a new team — feel more daunting than they should.
A sense that if the AI scaffolding were removed, "the real me" would be exposed
Q 08
Trust Erosion
In my team, there's a quiet sense of "why bother trying hard if it's going to be rewritten anyway."
Junior submits AI draft → senior rewrites everything → junior disengages from learning
Q 09
Trust Erosion
Informal coaching from seniors — hallway conversations, lunch chats, spontaneous feedback — has decreased since AI was introduced.
Seniors are now too busy reviewing and correcting AI output to pass on unwritten knowledge
Q 10
Overall Assessment
I'm doing the work — but I don't feel like I'm actually growing.
Output exists. The sense of getting genuinely better at something does not.
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Erosion Type Breakdown

🧠 Cognitive Atrophy—
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📉 Expertise Debt—
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🔗 Trust Erosion—
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📘 The Book Behind This Assessment

Name it. Understand it.
Reclaim your growth.

Silent Erosion names what you've been feeling — and shows you the structural forces behind it. Then it gives you a practical path back: reclaiming friction, rebuilding judgment, and staying ahead of the erosion curve.

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