{"id":210459,"date":"2026-05-07T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/spending-just-10-minutes-with-ai-can-fry-your-brain-researchers-find\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T16:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T20:25:13","slug":"spending-just-10-minutes-with-ai-can-fry-your-brain-researchers-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/spending-just-10-minutes-with-ai-can-fry-your-brain-researchers-find\/","title":{"rendered":"Spending Just 10 Minutes With AI Can Fry Your Brain, Researchers Find"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/spending-just-10-minutes-with-ai-can-fry-your-brain-researchers-find-2000755701\">Spending Just 10 Minutes With AI Can Fry Your Brain, Researchers Find<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/spending-just-10-minutes-with-ai-can-fry-your-brain-researchers-find-2000755701\">https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/spending-just-10-minutes-with-ai-can-fry-your-brain-researchers-find-2000755701<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-07 14:55:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"gizmodo.com\">gizmodo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A recent study by researchers from Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Oxford, and UCLA reveals that relying on AI tools can significantly diminish human critical thinking abilities.<\/li>\n<li>Participants assisted by AI assistants showed a marked decline in problem-solving skills when the AI support was withdrawn from the test.<\/li>\n<li>In a math test involving fraction-based arithmetic, the AI-aided group showed considerable proficiency with the AI but faltered when solving the last three questions unaided, resulting in a 20% lower solve rate compared to those who worked without AI.<\/li>\n<li>In the reading comprehension test, while AI support did not greatly enhance initial performance, the group that relied heavily on AI showed poor performance once the AI was removed.<\/li>\n<li>Reliance on AI for complete problem solutions led to the largest performance drops, while using AI for hints had no significant adverse impact.<\/li>\n<li>The study suggests a general decline in cognition when AI is used for problem-solving, not specific to any task type.<\/li>\n<li>The findings align with previous research, including a Microsoft study that observed similar cognitive declines in knowledge workers who rely on AI.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spending Just 10 Minutes With AI Can Fry Your Brain, Researchers Find https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/spending-just-10-minutes-with-ai-can-fry-your-brain-researchers-find-2000755701 Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":210460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/04\/melting-brain-1200x675.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210461,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210459\/revisions\/210461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}