Study Finds Overreliance on AI Weakens Critical Thinking Skills

Using ChatGPT? AI Could Damage Your Critical Thinking Skills, According to a Microsoft Study

Researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University claim to be the first to study AI's effects on critical thinking. They found that the more confident humans were in AI, the fewer critical-thinking skills they used.

Overreliance on A.I. Erodes ‘the Quality of Human Thought,” Microsoft Study Finds

Humans have always been wary of how technological advances could deteriorate our thinking skills. The printing press, for example, led some to worry that scribes would become lazy; calculators spooked math teachers; and the internet spawned widespread anxiety over its cognitive impacts. When it comes to generative A.I., however, there may be real cause for concern, according to a new study from researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon Univer…

Microsoft Says Workers are Already Using AI to Lighten Workloads, at Risk to Their Own Brainpower

It may already be time to worry that people are losing their own smarts and skills by relying on AI to do the intellectual heavy lifting for them.

AI Is Making Us Dumber. Shocker.

Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University joined forces to produce a study that looked into the effects of AI tools in the workplace.

Study Finds That People Who Entrust Tasks to AI Are Losing Critical Thinking Skills

Brain Power Trusting artificial intelligence over the real thing seems, per a new study, to be atrophying folks' critical thinking skills. As flagged by the folks at 404 Media, new research from Carnegie Mellon and Microsoft — yes, the same company that invested nearly $14 billion into OpenAI and is essentially subsidizing the ChatGPT maker — suggests that the more people use AI, to less critical thinking they do. "Used improperly, technologies …