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Is AI making us dumb?
Researchers from Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University recently published a study looking at how using generative AI at work affects critical thinking
If humans only intervene when AI responses are insufficient, the paper says, then workers are deprived of “routine opportunities to practice their judgment and strengthen their cognitive musculature, leaving them atrophied and unprepared when the exceptions do arise.” Another respondent reported that he had to edit AI-generated emails that he would send to his boss — whose culture places more emphasis on hierarchy and age — so that he wouldn’t commit a faux pas. And in many cases, participants verified AI-generated responses with more general web searches from resources like YouTube and Wikipedia, possibly defeating the purpose of using AI in the first place.
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