“While cognitive offloading with AI reduces people’s higher thinking abilities, thoughtful integration of ‘extraheric AI’—which nudges, questions, and challenges users—can substantially improve critical thinking.”
OpenAI has been taking some serious flak in the past weeks about its “synthetic courtesy” to the point that Sam Altman has said that, due to how “annoying” GPT-4o has become, the upcoming update will address GPT’s excessive pandering.