AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking
Adults / lifelong learning AI and learning
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| Claim | Basis |
|---|---|
| K45 (candidate) | Survey of 666: frequent AI use correlated with lower critical-thinking scores, mediated by offloading. |
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Syntes: AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking (2025)
Källa: https://doi.org/10.3390/soc15010006 (Societies 15(1))
Verified content
- Survey and interviews with 666 participants (abstract).
- Significant negative correlation between frequent AI-tool use and critical-thinking scores, mediated by cognitive offloading; younger participants more dependent on AI and lower scoring.
Limits
- Cross-sectional, self-report; cannot show cause.
Added 2026-10-16 by the project (broadening, Jonatan approved 2026-10-16); content from the published abstract or well-documented summaries, not a full-text read unless stated.
Metadata as recorded
- ID
- AI-040
- Tier
- observational
- Titel
- AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking
- År
- 2025
- Källa/DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/soc15010006
- Tidskrift
- Societies 15(1)
- Typ
- peer-reviewed article
- Åldersgrupp
- vuxen-livslangt
- Teman
- ai-och-larande
- Hämtad
- 2026-10-16
- Verifierad
- Crossref metadata (title, authors, year, venue) checked 2026-10-16
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