"Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds

https://lemmy.ugjka.net/post/516438

"Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds - My Lemmy shed

Lemmy

Many (most?) people have always relied on somebody or something else to do the thinking for them.

AI can just be added to the long, long list of sources people so inclined uncritically accept.

AI doesn’t object, or ask for compensation, and, it sits in their pocket, available 24/7, and the responses it gives are sycophantic. There’s a difference between relying on humans to do their thinking, and relying on a computer.