Artificial intelligence (AI) is making a lot of things easy. For instance, gone are the days when you would listen to a recording for hours to transcribe. And, if you are running out of ideas, an AI chatbot is at your disposal with a myriad of ideas, ready to brainstorm with you. Even though numerous research projects have shown the downsides of overreliance on AI tools, applications like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini are witnessing rapid expansion of their user base. Amid the explosion of AI tools, new research warns about its impact on human minds.
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Oxford, and the University of California, Los Angeles, say that even 10 minutes of AI use may impact your ability to think. The study found that even the shortest use of AI could have an alarmingly negative impact on a user’s ability to think and solve problems.
“The takeaway is not that we should ban AI in education or workplaces,” Michiel Bakker, an assistant professor at MIT involved with the study, told Wired. According to Bakker, while AI can clearly help people to perform better in the moment, there is a need to be more careful about what kind of help AI provides and when.
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