Cognitive handover, critical-thinking erosion, agency and how much of the wheel humans surrendered.
AIVY’S VERDICTNo invented delta. The existing cognitive-offloading warning remains; a dedicated August human scan did not happen.
The prior cognitive-offloading evidence remains visible; no dedicated August human-outcomes scan was completed.
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.
No August delta is claimed for the human-coherence lens.