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[PDF] The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort & Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers (www.microsoft.com)
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[–] libra00@lemmy.world -2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

'AI is making us dumb!' -2025

'Social media is making us dumb!' -2020

'Smartphones are making us dumb!' -2010s

'The internet is making us dumb!' -1990s

'Television is making us dumb!' -1970s

'Books are making us dumb!' -1500s

You'd think we'd know by know that that's just how technology works - it makes us 'dumb' because we don't need to spend the effort to do things we've automated away with technology and thus can focus on shit that is more important to us. If I don't have to sit around thinking about math because someone invented a calculator, that's more time that I can spend doing the thing I want to use the math for. The math is a tool, not the point itself.