The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

With AI now mainstream in business, a critical question emerges: are we still thinking critically when AI does the heavy lifting? This isn’t just academic — it affects job fulfillment and challenges ...

Generative AI tools have become hugely popular but some experts worry about the effect they have on the brain.

I recently wrote a research paper on cognitive barriers to critical thinking (CT), discussing flaws in thinking associated with intuitive judgment, emotion, bias, and epistemological misunderstanding, ...

A new study co-authored by Microsoft found that those with high confidence in the ability of generative AI also exhibit lower critical thinking skills. The report (PDF), titled "The Impact of ...

Socrates wasn’t the greatest fan of the written word. Famous for leaving no texts to posterity, the great philosopher is said to have believed that a reliance on writing destroys the memory and ...

In a series of experiments described in Science Magazine in 2011, a trio of researchers found evidence to support a sneaking suspicion bubbling up in the minds of many Google aficionados: Frequent ...

Critical thinking is a vital, yet often neglected, skill. In higher education, Chris Griffiths, author of “The Creative Thinking Handbook,” noted in a TLNT blog article that critical thinking is “the ...

We’re entering a new era where artificial intelligence can generate content faster than we can apply critical thinking. In mere seconds, AI can summarize long reports, write emails in our tone and ...

I recently asked a fellow academic, in conversation, how they try to integrate critical thinking into their classroom, and they replied that they don’t have "much time for that kind of thing." I ...