Researchers at MIT’s Media Lab set out to determine if ChatGPT and large language models are eroding critical thinking.

The LLM group showed "weaker memory traces, reduced self-monitoring and fragmented authorship," the study authors wrote. That can be a concern in a learning environment: "If users rely heavily on AI ...

A recent study by MIT’s Media Lab has raised concerns about the cognitive effects of using generative AI tools like ChatGPT.

A recent study by MIT’s Media Lab has raised serious concerns about the impact of generative AI, especially ChatGPT, on users ...

Business analytics leverages AI tools like ChatGPT for faster insights, but analysts must guard against metacognitive ...

With generative AI tools like ChatGPT becoming more deeply integrated into classrooms and workplaces, new research is also raising red flags about what we might be giving up in return: our brainpower.

A new MIT study has raised alarm bells about the mental cost of using AI tools like ChatGPT, suggesting that they may be ...

This preliminary, non-peer-reviewed study highlights that among students tasked with writing and memorizing a series of ...

Users are turning to ChatGPT to guide them through acid trips. Plus Microsoft stacks the deck in dodgy medical ...

When Jocelyn Leitzinger had her university students write about times in their lives they had witnessed discrimination, she ...

The answer’s a bit more complicated than that. And it’s worth remembering the introduction of calculators in the 1970s.

Participants who exclusively used the AI to help write essays showed weaker brain connectivity, lower memory retention and a ...