A team of neurologists and AI specialists at MIT's Media Lab has led a study looking into the brain impacts of large language model (LLM) use among people who engage with them for study or work. They ...

Generative AI tools have become hugely popular but some experts worry about the effect they have on the brain.

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Critical thinking is a vital, yet often neglected, skill. In higher education, Chris Griffiths, author of “The Creative Thinking Handbook,” noted in a TLNT blog article that critical thinking is “the ...

Critical thinking is an essential skill in the workplace, particularly for skilled job seekers aiming for salaries of $100,000 or more per year. It involves analyzing facts, evaluating evidence, and ...

I recently wrote a research paper on cognitive barriers to critical thinking (CT), discussing flaws in thinking associated with intuitive judgment, emotion, bias, and epistemological misunderstanding, ...

A new study co-authored by Microsoft found that those with high confidence in the ability of generative AI also exhibit lower critical thinking skills. The report (PDF), titled "The Impact of ...

A study finds that gen AI tools may be "encouraging over-reliance on AI, with confidence in the tool often diminishing independent problem-solving." Imad is a senior reporter covering Google and ...

With AI now mainstream in business, a critical question emerges: are we still thinking critically when AI does the heavy lifting? This isn’t just academic — it affects job fulfillment and challenges ...

At a time when automation and artificial intelligence (AI) are rapidly transforming the accounting landscape, critical thinking remains a uniquely human skill that machines cannot replicate. Critical ...