Using AI tools like ChatGPT can reduce critical thinking skills

Generative AI tools can limit users’ critical thinking when doing tasks. People using generative AI also think less critically when they trust the AI to do a task, such as developing an argument for a paper or presentation. The researchers behind the findings say the solution is to adapt the technology, rather than to limit its use.

Lev Tankelevitch at Microsoft Research and his colleagues asked 319 people to take part in a survey. The participants,…