Using AI tools like ChatGPT can reduce critical thinking skills

Are we losing critical thinking skills to artificial intelligence? Using generative AI can limit its 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. How does ChatGPT work and do AI-powered chatbots "think" like us? Lev Tankelevitch at Microsoft Research and his colleagues asked 319 workers to take part in a survey.