The most useful skill I can imagine for a student in the age of AI is not prompt writing. It is the willingness to argue with the answer.
AI tools produce fluent, confident text, and confidence is persuasive. That is exactly the danger. A student who accepts the first response is borrowing someone else's thinking without checking whether it holds up. A student who questions it is practising the habit that education is supposed to build.
I would love to see this made explicit in classrooms. Give students an AI-generated answer and ask them to find what is wrong with it. Ask them to check the claims against a textbook or a primary source. Ask what is missing, whose perspective is absent, and whether the example would even work in a Kenyan context. Have them improve the answer, then explain in their own words why the improved version is better.
This turns AI from a shortcut into a sparring partner. The student still has to know the subject well enough to spot weaknesses, which means the learning is happening, not being skipped.
It also makes lecturers more comfortable. You do not need to be an expert in every tool to run this exercise. You need to be an expert in your subject, and you already are.
Used this way, AI does not make students think less. It gives them something worth thinking against.