{"id":216699,"date":"2025-06-27T06:21:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T11:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/does-using-artificial-intelligence-ruin-your-actual-intelligence-scientists-investigated"},"modified":"2025-06-27T06:21:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T11:21:57","slug":"does-using-artificial-intelligence-ruin-your-actual-intelligence-scientists-investigated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/does-using-artificial-intelligence-ruin-your-actual-intelligence-scientists-investigated","title":{"rendered":"Does Using Artificial Intelligence Ruin Your Actual Intelligence? Scientists Investigated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/does-using-artificial-intelligence-ruin-your-actual-intelligence-scientists-investigated2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since ChatGPT appeared almost three years ago, the impact of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/artificial-intelligence\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">artificial intelligence<\/a> (AI) technologies on learning has been widely debated. Are they handy tools for personalised education, or gateways to academic dishonesty?<\/p>\n<p>Most importantly, there has been <a href=\"https:\/\/ia.acs.org.au\/article\/2024\/is-ai-making-us-dumber-.html\">concern<\/a> that using AI will lead to a widespread \u201cdumbing down\u201d, or decline in the ability to think critically. If students use AI tools too early, the argument goes, they may not develop basic skills for critical thinking and problem-solving.<\/p>\n<p>Is that really the case? According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2506.08872\">recent study<\/a> by scientists from MIT, it appears so. Using ChatGPT to help write essays, the researchers say, can lead to \u201ccognitive debt\u201d and a \u201clikely decrease in learning skills\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since ChatGPT appeared almost three years ago, the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies on learning has been widely debated. Are they handy tools for personalised education, or gateways to academic dishonesty? Most importantly, there has been concern that using AI will lead to a widespread \u201cdumbing down\u201d, or decline in the ability to think [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}