Be careful delegating your work to that chatbot. A new peer-reviewed study published Thursday by the American Psychological Association found that people who heavily rely on AI tools for work tasks reported feeling less confident in their abilities and had less ownership over their work.
There has been growing research on how our brains function when we use AI tools. A landmark study from MIT in 2025 found that our brains don’t retain as much information or employ necessary critical thinking skills when writing tasks are outsourced to AI chatbots.
This new study aimed to understand how our human behavior, specifically executive functions — like strategic planning and decision making — can change when AI is part of the process.
Sarah Baldeo, the study’s author and a Ph.D. candidate in AI and neuroscience at Middlesex University in England, noted in the paper that these findings do not show that AI is harming or
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