Tagged "metacognition"

Behind the Curtain

MIT scanned the brains of 54 people writing essays. The ones using ChatGPT showed the weakest neural activity, the lowest ownership of their work, and couldn't quote their own sentences. A separate study of 1,000 math students found AI boosted scores by 48% – then dropped them 17% below baseline once the tool was removed. The wizard is impressive. The curtain is the problem.