Are we losing our critical thinking skills to AI? New Microsoft study raises red flags
As more workplaces embrace emerging technology, research warns that prolonged use of AI can erode our cognitive abilities.
Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills
Researchers from Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University warn that the more you use AI, the more your cognitive abilities deteriorate.
Study Finds That People Who Entrust Tasks to AI Are Losing Critical Thinking Skills
The findings from those examples were striking: overall, those who trusted the accuracy of the AI tools found themselves thinking less critically, while those who trusted the tech less used more critical thought when going back over AI outputs.
AI dependency weakens critical thinking, study finds
The investigation tracked 319 knowledge workers across various industries, monitoring their problem-solving approaches when using AI tools.
AI is harming your critical thinking: Microsoft study suggests
A new study by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft has found that using generative AI tools - such as ChatGPT and Copilot - may be reducing our ability to think critically. The research,
Microsoft Research: AI Stifles Critical Thinking
Microsoft Research finds that humans who increasingly rely on generative AI in their work use less critical thinking that can deteriorate their cognitive abilities.
People who use a lot of AI for work are losing critical thinking skills, finds Microsoft study
Microsoft’s survey of 319 knowledge workers across various industries. Participants shared nearly 1,000 examples of how they used AI in their jobs. Many respondents admitted that when they trusted AI’s output,
Microsoft study says relying on AI reduces critical thinking
Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University found that people’s critical thinking skills decline as they increasingly depend on artificial intelligence. Consequently, this reliance makes it harder to use these skills when necessary.
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New Research Suggests Overreliance on AI Could Hinders Critical Thinking
Study finds that GenAI tools may be "encouraging over-reliance on AI, with confidence in the tool often diminishing ...
How To Better Nurture Critical Thinking In Students
Whether academic or professional, if you teach or lead others in any capacity, do your absolute best to nurture critical-thinking skills in those who look to you.
AI might already be warping our brains, leaving our judgment and critical thinking ‘atrophied and unprepared,’ warns new study
Silicon Valley and the Trump administration are embracing AI, but the technology has troubling implications for critical ...
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Is AI Helping or Hurting Critical Thought?
AI is shaping the way we think – but is it for better or worse? Discover what Microsoft’s new study reveals about AI’s impact ...
We just started using AI like ChatGPT, and it may already be making us dumber
A Microsoft study about generative AI software like ChatGPT used at work says that AI might kill critical thinking abilities.
Critical thinking skills prove effective in discerning truth from conspiracy theories
A new experimental study has found that fostering critical thinking can be an effective method to reduce people's tendency to ...
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Overreliance on A.I. Erodes ‘the Quality of Human Thought,” Microsoft Study Finds
Like printing, calculators and the internet, A.I. tools “are the latest in a long line of technologies that raise questions ...