Blog Post

September 6, 2025

By

András Baneth

Mental Shortcuts in the Age of AI: A Quiet Concern Getting Louder

"Mental laziness" is an increasingly common concern in our AI workshops. In this post, we highlight a new study from Carnegie Mellon and Microsoft Research on AI and critical thinking—and share our visual summary of its key insights.

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"Mental laziness" is an option marked increasingly often in our AI pre-workshop questionnaire as a key concern many participants share.

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Recently, Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft Research Cambridge came out with a study on "AI and critical thinking", which we decided to create a visual summary of.

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This was originally posted on Andras Baneth's LinkedIn account.

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