Now that AI is fully and freely available to everyone, we in academia, industry, and the rest of the world must now realize that generative AI has become a force multiplier to everone who can use it. But we must additionally have the understanding that there are multiple tiers to being fully competitive in our modernized environment. To be properly competitive in work, research, and everything else, we need to understand these four tiers of AI augmentation. Tier 1: Basic Knowledge (general degre