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Kevin Okemwa

An OpenAI employee says an overreliance on AI-powered tools like ChatGPT makes us dumber — Our bottom percentile students are most susceptible

A photo taken on February 26, 2024 shows the logo of the ChatGPT application developed by US artificial intelligence research organization OpenAI on a smartphone screen.

Over the past few months, multiple discussions have emerged across social media, predominantly questioning the long-term impact of using AI on our cognitive capabilities.

Microsoft researchers recently published an interesting study on the same issue, indicating that an overreliance and dependency on AI-powered tools like Copilot negatively impacts people's critical thinking capabilities. Perhaps more concerning, it may contribute to the deterioration of cognitive faculties.

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