Ten Minutes with AI Might Dull Your Thinking, New Study Suggests
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A multi-university study from Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Oxford, and UCLA suggests that relying on AI assistants for as little as 10 minutes can impair thinking and problem-solving, highlighting the risk of overreliance on AI and the ongoing need to teach critical thinking and source verification when using AI tools.
- Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Might Make You Lazy and Dumb, Study Shows WIRED
- 'Think outside the bots': How to stop AI from turning your brain to mush BBC
- AI and the danger of cognitive surrender The Economist
- Mounting evidence suggests that relying on AI can hamper learning. Psychology Today
- The Psychological Costs of Adopting AI Harvard Business Review
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