AI is reshaping the teenage brain — and an Oxford study says it is making students faster, but shallower thinkers

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A student has a class in an artificial intelligence interactive classroom at the 2025 China International Fair for Trade in Services CIFTIS in Beijing, capital of China, September 11, 2025.
Oxford researchers say teenagers are learning faster with AI — but losing the depth to think critically.

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Professors fear students are outsourcing critical thinking to AI. Here are 5 ways they can fight back, a researcher says.

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Hastings High School students use CollegeSpring software to complete practice test exercises in English vocabulary in Houston, on March 26, 2025
A South African researcher says universities are failing to teach critical thinking as students let AI do their thinking for them.

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