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Using generative AI at work can weaken our capacity for independent problem-solving, study finds

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Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University study looked at how using generative AI at work affects critical thinking skills.

The study found that when people rely too much on AI to think for us, we get worse at solving problems ourselves when AI fails.

In many cases, participants verified AI -generated responses with more general web searches from resources like YouTube and Wikipedia .

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