Critical Thinking (In the AI Age)
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Why kids who argue with AI are building something the others aren't
MIT put 54 university students into three groups: ChatGPT users, search engine users, no tools. EEG caps throughout. By the third essay, the ChatGPT group had stopped writing and were asking the AI to do it. The implication for children is uncomfortable.
When the computer makes things up
Ask any AI chatbot for the source of a famous quote and a meaningful share of the time you'll get a confident, complete, invented citation. A book that doesn't exist. A real historian on a topic they've never written about. The verification habit isn't new, just newly urgent.
Why children trust AI more than adults do
Every confidently wrong AI answer is a small free lesson, if you slow down long enough to take it.