Spending as little as 10 minutes with an AI tool may chip away at a person’s willingness to grind through tough work, according to a newly published study. A team of researchers carried out several experiments and found that people lost focus and gave up more easily on demanding tasks soon after turning to artificial intelligence for help. The team calls the result a striking one. They say it matches what plenty of people already suspect: leaning on AI slowly wears down our mental sharpness. When answers arrive within seconds, working things out on your own starts to feel painfully slow. That robs people of what the researchers call productive struggle, the kind of effort that actually helps us improve. Scam attempts hit 84% of Filipino adults, losses reach Php121.8 billion Artificial Intelligence designs viruses that kill bacteria more effectively Brian Christian of the University of California, Berkeley, who took part in the work, put it this way. These...
Spending as little as 10 minutes with an AI tool may chip away at a person’s willingness to grind through tough work, according to a newly published study.
A team of researchers carried out several experiments and found that people lost focus and gave up more easily on demanding tasks soon after turning to artificial intelligence for help.
The team calls the result a striking one. They say it matches what plenty of people already suspect: leaning on AI slowly wears down our mental sharpness. When answers arrive within seconds, working things out on your own starts to feel painfully slow. That robs people of what the researchers call productive struggle, the kind of effort that actually helps us improve.
- Scam attempts hit 84% of Filipino adults, losses reach Php121.8 billion
- Artificial Intelligence designs viruses that kill bacteria more effectively
Brian Christian of the University of California, Berkeley, who took part in the work, put it this way. These systems were designed to be helpful, he said, but are they helping us in a way that genuinely does us good? Ironically, he added, the study shows they often help us in ways that do not.
For the first experiment, 354 people were divided into two groups and handed 15 simple fraction questions. One group worked alone. The other could turn to ChatGPT. Once 12 questions were done, the researchers pulled the chatbot from the second group. That group had been getting more answers right up to that point. The moment the AI vanished, the pattern flipped. They quickly began missing questions.
Next, 667 more volunteers went through a similar setup. The same thing happened. People who had leaned on AI either slipped up or quit altogether once the tool was gone.
A third round involved 201 participants who tackled a reading comprehension question taken from the SAT, the test used for college admissions in the United States. Same story again. Losing access to AI left them unwilling to keep trying, and their answers suffered.
You may check out the full paper titled “AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance.”
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