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🖥️ 📚 **AI Is Making Reading Books Feel Obsolete – And Students Have A Lot To Lose**

"_The evidence reveals that the more users rely on AI to perform work for them, the less they see themselves as drawing upon their own thinking capacities. A study employing EEG measurements found different brain connectivity patterns when participants enlisted AI to help them write an essay than when writing it on their own._"

🔗 theconversation.com/ai-is-maki.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Literature #Research #Learning #Education #Reading #Books #Bookstodon #CriticalThinking #Cognition @bookstodon

The ConversationAI is making reading books feel obsolete – and students have a lot to loseEven before generative AI went mainstream, fewer people were reading books.

"After analyzing the 68 studies, we concluded that GenAI makes critical thinking worse by promoting automation bias, lowering metacognitive monitoring and embedding unverified mistakes into learners’ reasoning chains [...]"

The impact of generative AI on critical thinking skills: a systematic review, conceptual framework and future research directions | Information Discovery and Delivery | Emerald Publishing

emerald.com/idd/article/doi/10

The #discourse of #philosophy - a short #journey through the #history of #philosophy

Start

“1st stop - at the old #Greeks in Athens and surroundings”, “2nd stop - at the meditating #Descartes in Ulm”, “3rd stop - in Königsberg at #Kant, who sees the light”, “4th stop - short detour to Nice to the all-negating #Nietzsche” and then finally “5th search for another #station”.

If you want to continue: philosophies.de/index.php/2025

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake "Against the frailties & shortcomings of human cognition" Sale: $18 to $1.99 by Steven Novella Rating: 4.7/5 (1782 Reviews) #Science #Books #human #CriticalThinking #Skeptic #Guide #BookSky

The Skeptics' Guide to the Uni...

amzn.toAmazon.fr : The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake

Are #student #assignments which used ##grammarly or #ChatGPT as worthy of the #scores as #work which didn't have that help?
If both cases are treated as #equal we are #teaching #students that there's no point in #learning.
It already happens including #university level.
We are #dumbing_down.
What happens if the #digital #assistance stops?
Would digitally supported students be able to work things out for themselves?
Will the #future need to be oversimplified?
#education #tech #criticalthinking

#Reading #online #media, inc. major outlets the #errors is appalling. They use #AI #generated #text, they don't #proofread.

It only used to be #GIGO Garbage in/Garbage out and now we’ve added #HOGI #Human out/Garbage in.

AI has great uses in controlled conditions where the #dataharvest is strictly restricted to #validated #infornation Sadly, the day-to-day use of AI doesn’t follow that exemplar.

Which #generation will lose #criticalthinking & #creativity due to #artificialintelligence?