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A new paper from researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University finds that as humans increasingly rely on generative AI in their work, they use less critical thinking, which can “result in the deterioration of cognitive faculties that ought to be preserved.”
https://www.404media.co/microsoft-study-finds-ai-makes-human-cognition-atrophied-and-unprepared-3/
I automated things in work through the use of a spreadsheet - in critical thinking was quickly reduced down to 'The spreadsheet is broke, fix it' (An invalid input) and 'The spreadsheet is giving a different result this time, it must be broke. (No, it's supposed to do that)
Nobody really knows what the options are for. And they ask for it to do things it already can - but they just mindlessly click/bypass anyway.
Sheet does in 10 minutes what used to take a day.