Cost of AI: Our own critical thinking

Are we becoming too reliant on our digital assistants?

A recent study from Microsoft (April 1, 2025) sheds light on a potential cost: our own critical thinking skills. The study found that over-reliance on AI can reduce critical thinking, the tendency to skip reviews, shift our focus towards verification instead of creation, and correlate higher AI confidence with reduced cognitive effort.

We can think maintaining our thinking skills like going to the gym: if we don’t train our muscles, they weaken.

This research reminds us to actively engage and cultivate our independent thoughts and thinking skills, so they don’t become rigid, reduced, and less effective. We guess no one wants to become dumb!

At Humainic, we didn’t build AI to replace your brain but to make it more powerful!

Aika is designed to be a thinking partner, asking you questions that deepen your engagement with your specific task and guide you to your own strategic insights.