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Applying AI for Just 10 Minutes Might Make You Lazy and Dumb, Study Catches
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Using AI chatbots for even for 10 minutes may have a shockingly negative impact on people’s ability to think and problem-solve, according to a new study from researchers at Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Oxford, and UCLA.
Key facts
- Using AI chatbots for even for 10 minutes may have a shockingly negative impact on people’s ability to think and problem-solve, according to a new study from researchers at Carnegie Mellon, MIT
- The takeaway is not that we should ban AI in education or workplaces,” says Michiel Bakker, an assistant professor at MIT involved with the study — This is an edition of Will Knight’s AI Lab newsletter
- Some participants were given access to an AI assistant capable of solving the problem autonomously
Summary
Researchers tasked people with solving various problems, including simple fractions and reading comprehension, through an online platform that paid them for their work. Some participants were given access to an AI assistant capable of solving the problem autonomously. “The takeaway is not that we should ban AI in education or workplaces,” says Michiel Bakker, an assistant professor at MIT involved with the study. The reporter recently met up with Bakker, who has chaotic hair and a wide grin, on MIT’s campus. He told me that a well-known essay on the way AI may disempower humans over time inspired him to think about how the technology could already be eroding people’s abilities.