MIT professor Eric So says routine AI use dulls thinking
In a Boston Globe interview he describes a use-it-or-lose-it cycle and a student outsourcing diagnoses to a bot.
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AI access makes people almost entirely unwilling to say "I don't know," study finds
Study of 3,132 people finds AI access nearly eliminates "I don't know" answers while sharply reducing accuracy.
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Designing Against Deskilling: Metacognitive Feedback Reduces Cognitive Offloading to LLM Assistants
Preregistered study of 704 participants shows metacognitive feedback reduces cognitive offloading to LLM assistants and improves unaided test performance.