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CAREER: Rethinking Human-AI Interaction to Strengthen Human Critical and Creative Thinking

US NSF grant open #nsf-2543986

Summary

Artificial Intelligence (AI) based assistants and agents are rapidly becoming part of how people write, code, study, and make decisions. While these tools offer unprecedented gains in productivity, they also introduce a growing risk: as people rely on AI assistants to generate ideas and solutions, they may gradually lose creative ownership and reduce their critical evaluation of suggestions. Over time, this shift can weaken independent reasoning and steer users toward conventional ideas rather than novel ones. As AI becomes deeply integrated into education and industry, it is essential that th

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