Nabil Al Mahmoud
With the acceleration of dependence on obstetric artificial intelligence models such as Chatgpt, Deepseek and Copilot in writing, analysis and decision -making, a intuitive question highlights: Is artificial intelligence a tool that thinks with us or thinks about us?
In a recent research study by Microsoft Research and Carnegie Mellon University, in which 319 employees used GNAI tools per week, the following turned out:
Changing the path of critical thinking:
The mental effort from collecting information turns to verify the health of the outputs, and from solving the problems manually to integrating the responses provided by artificial intelligence. The focus also moves from carrying out tasks to overseeing the quality of tasks accomplished by intelligence.
Reducing the effort of critical thinking:
The more the user’s confidence in the tools of artificial intelligence, the more he understands and implements accurately, the less his endeavor to verify and think itself, and less his effort.
Weakening problem solving skills:
Excessive use of artificial intelligence tools may lead in the long run to the low capabilities of independent thinking and decision -making, especially if the user is not aware of what these tools offer to him.
The Vinongy Times warned against this entitled: “The danger is not the use of artificial intelligence, but rather in his assumption of thinking on our behalf without our awareness, so we slowly lose our analytical skills.” And if we recover our ability to save the phone numbers of our relatives and friends, we will find it completely faded with our use of smartphones. Previously, we knew the roads and entrances in our cities, and today we hand over driving to Google’s maps without thinking. The appearance of the “smart suggestions” feature in mail or automatic responses made us choose instead of writing. In the education sector, excessive dependence on students on artificial intelligence in resolving duties and projects led them to decline in research, writing and analysis skills, which turned learning into a smart copy mechanism.
Artificial intelligence depends mainly on the “original” content produced by humans, but if the content base expands to be recycled from the outputs of the artificial intelligence itself, we risk entering into a vicious circle, and similar results that depend on homogeneous content without creativity or real intellectual diversity. The solution is to design tools to support critical thinking, not to cancel it. Institutions and individuals need to build awareness and skills that enable them to use these tools in an integrated critical, and it is more beneficial to enhance the culture of “verification and analysis” no “transport and copying”. Artificial intelligence tools must be harnessed to motivate us to think, not to think instead of us.
