Outsourcing your Thinking

The use of AI includes the danger of the illusion of competence. 

One of the impacts of AI on learning is cognitive offloading (letting it do mindless tasks for you).

But when what’s offloaded is important, the result is cognitive debt, an overreliance on outside sources replacing our own thinking. This makes AI a great way to produce the appearance of learning while masking the costs to those who use it.

More: Chronicle of Higher Ed