AI isn't making us smarter — it's training us to think backward, an innovation theorist says

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John Nosta, founder of the NostaLab think tank
John Nosta, founder of the NostaLab think tank, says AI trains humans to think backward by providing answers before they understand.

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A Nobel Prize-winning physicist explains how to use AI without letting it do your thinking for you

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Iranian AI specialists participate in a Text and Image processing competition during Iran's 2025 Tech Olympics at Pardis Technology Park, in Tehran, Iran, on October 28, 2025
A Nobel Prize-winning physicist explains why AI can create false confidence — and how to use it without outsourcing your thinking.

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Teachers fear AI could weaken critical thinking — Mark Cuban says it can do the opposite and build better leaders

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Mark Cuban at the Senate Special Committee on Aging hearing on October 22, 2025
Mark Cuban says AI can sharpen students' minds and create future leaders — not lazy thinkers.

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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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