For the sake of the next generation, America’s elected officials, parents and educators need to get serious about curbing kids’ use of artificial intelligence — or the cognitive consequences will be devastating. NY Post assistant editorial page editor Brooke Rogers shares this story.
As Rikki Schlott reported in Wednesday’s Post, an MIT Media Lab study found that people who used large language models like ChatGPT to write essays had reduced critical thinking skills and attention spans and showed less brain activity while working than those who didn’t rely on the AI’s help.
And over time the AI-users grew to rely more heavily on the tech, going from using it for small tweaks and refinement to copying and pasting whole portions of whatever the models spit out.
A series of experiments at UPenn/Wharton had similar results: Participants who used large language models like ChatGPT were able to research topics faster than those who used Google, but lagged in retaining and understanding the information they got.
That is: They weren’t actually learning as much as those who had to actively seek out the information they needed.
The bottom line: Using AI for tasks like researching and writing makes us dumber and lazier.
Read more at https://nypost.com/2025/06/28/opinion/weve-all-got-to-do-more-to-protect-kids-from-ai-abuse-in-schools/
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