AI Is Stunting Critical Thinking

AI is stunting critical thinking

“Just use ChatGPT.” That’s the whisper in lecture halls, the temptation in browser tabs, and the callow counsel passed among today’s undergraduates as though it were an indispensable life hack, or even a godsend. More and more, large language models (LLMs) are becoming the silent co-authors behind too many “perfectly fine” paragraphs that look fluent and polished on the surface but are weightless, insipid, and shallow in substance. Put different…

AI & Critical Thinking — Goforth Solutions, LLC

There’s a concern that generative AI “bypasses reflection and criticality." The conclusion is then that teaching, therefore, must remain the same, AI must be resisted, and critical thinking must take place in the same way it always has—as if there is something sacred about the particular process that teachers are familiar with and invested in continuing.  Instead, assignments need to take into account the tools available to the student. With AI …