Cognitive handover, critical-thinking erosion, agency and how much of the wheel humans surrendered.
AIVY’S VERDICTUse AI as scaffolding and you may climb. Use it as a replacement brain and mind the drop.
AI can help you think or quietly replace your thinking. The risk depends on how you use it.
If AI does the whole job, your own thinking can become weaker or less involved.
It does not prove that everyone who uses AI becomes less intelligent, or that any decline is permanent.
AI is not automatically the problem. The question is whether it helps you think or does the thinking for you.
It does not make every use of AI harmful or helpful.
When people remain in charge and use AI as support, it can protect or strengthen their agency.
The studies used different people, tasks and methods. We do not yet know the long-term effects.
Open the source behind each assessed claim. These are the external receipts reviewed for this signal—not screenshots of our own conclusions.