Critical Thinking in the Age of AI: Why Your Brain Is Your Last Competitive Advantage
The Calculator Effect, Amplified Remember when calculators became ubiquitous? Teachers worried we’d forget how to do mental math. They were right—but it didn’t matter much. The trade-off was acceptable. Generative AI is making the same bargain, except this time we’re not trading away arithmetic. We’re trading away thinking itself. A Swiss Business School study surveyed over 600 participants and found something uncomfortable: there’s a significant negative correlation between frequent AI use and critical thinking ability. The more we lean on AI, the less sharp our own reasoning becomes. This isn’t speculation—it’s showing up in the data. ...