This study is useless. Its a self reported study that began after AI rollout. It has no information on how these people functioned prior to AI being available. The correlation between people less confident in their critical thinking skills and AI use could very well be a result of people that were already less confident before AI utilizing AI more because of that lack of confidence in their own ability. Not a surprise that microsoft ran the study if its this pointless.
To do it properly youd need to start testing people before they increased AI usage and see if a drop in ability occurs after, and youd need to test them not just have the data be self reported.
The researchers also found that “users with access to GenAI tools produce a less diverse set of outcomes for the same task, compared to those without.
This is their observation.
This tendency for convergence reflects a lack of personal, contextualised, critical and reflective judgement of AI output and thus can be interpreted as a deterioration of critical thinking.”
This is just speculation. They have no actual evidence this is the case.
So the irony of the study is they used poor critical thinking skills to evaluate the critical thinking skills of others.
based but comrade covid is still doing the heavy lifting
There’s no critical thinking in the west
