{"id":5228,"date":"2025-06-28T15:18:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T19:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/?p=5228"},"modified":"2025-07-10T09:56:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T13:56:18","slug":"chatgpt-may-be-eroding-critical-thinking-skills-according-to-a-new-mit-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/chatgpt-may-be-eroding-critical-thinking-skills-according-to-a-new-mit-study\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills, According to a New MIT Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-right\">by <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/author\/andrew-r-chow\/\">Andrew R. Chow<\/a> on Time Magazine<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>The study divided 54 subjects\u201418 to 39 year-olds from the Boston area\u2014into three groups, and asked them to write several SAT essays using OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT, Google\u2019s search engine, and nothing at all, respectively. Researchers used an EEG to record the writers\u2019 brain activity across 32 regions, and found that of the three groups, ChatGPT users had the lowest brain engagement and \u201cconsistently&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media.mit.edu\/publications\/your-brain-on-chatgpt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">underperformed<\/a>&nbsp;at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.\u201d Over the course of several months, ChatGPT users got lazier with each subsequent essay, often resorting to copy-and-paste by the end of the study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7295195\/ai-chatgpt-google-learning-school\/?linkId=833009020&amp;fbclid=PAQ0xDSwLM-TlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABpzoXuCUEB_Hofw6lclX0DT4lbI-OUN6fwUcmls18o6gYJMBlGPGHszZmYS6M_aem_vFtwjtVsSibNqoTLZQ7pIg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>by Andrew R. Chow on Time Magazine The study divided 54 subjects\u201418 to 39 year-olds from the Boston area\u2014into three groups, and asked them to <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/chatgpt-may-be-eroding-critical-thinking-skills-according-to-a-new-mit-study\/\" title=\"ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills, According to a New MIT Study\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[325,515,516,514],"class_list":["post-5228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad","category-3-articulos","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-critical-thinking","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5236,"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228\/revisions\/5236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conalti.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}