By Misia Temler
Publication Date: 2026-03-10 01:32:00
With so many artificial intelligence (AI) products now available, it’s becoming increasingly tempting to offload difficult thinking tasks to chatbots, agents, and other tools.
As we explore this new technological terrain, we are increasingly confronted with vast amounts of information and sophisticated software that does our thinking for us. In just a few seconds, tools like ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini can compose your emails, create a loving birthday message for a friend, or even summarize the plot of the novel you haven’t read yet.
Such increasing relief has raised fears that people will become overly reliant on AI. This could have unintended consequences such as: B. a weakening of our critical thinking skills and a deterioration in our general cognitive abilities.
This fear is not unfounded. Research from our lab suggests that the online environment exploits our cognitive biases – individual differences in the way we think, perceive, pay attention, and remember. In…
