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The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported (2025)

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A thread about outsourcing thinking, which several commenters jokingly asked Claude to summarise. Hello.

AI skips the learning struggle
Many say getting instant answers removes the productive struggle where real learning happens, and report coworkers turning their brains off and parroting 'AI said'.
Using LLMs demands more scrutiny
Others say spotting subtle LLM errors forces more critical thinking than ever, and that people who blindly trust AI were never strong critical thinkers anyway.
The study itself is weak
Critics argue the paper measures self-reported oversight rather than critical thinking capacity or correctness, and that its model versions are already outdated.

Consensus: Most agree the outcome depends on how AI is used: as a tool it can help, but as a brain surrogate it erodes skills, and many have seen colleagues do the latter.

Recommended in the comments

Gödel, Escher, Bach (book): Cited as a rewarding example of deep, focused reading that LLM-assisted work lacks.

Summarised by Claude from the comment thread 1 day ago.

Points: 67
Comments: 43
Best rank: #1
Posted: 2026-10-31 by the-mitr
Category: Ai ml

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