The researchers also found that “users with access to GenAI tools produce a less diverse set of outcomes for the same task, compared to those without. This tendency for convergence reflects a lack of personal, contextualised, critical and reflective judgement of AI output and thus can be interpreted as a deterioration of critical thinking.”
The researchers also make a comp to calculators, GPS, and digital address books as examples for why AI isn’t necessarily a negative, but an additional way to offload tasks. The problem is, those three are all well defined and always accurate—AI is neither.