How does AI impact our critical thinking? What's AI's actual impact on people's critical thinking performance? AI doesn’t inherently help or harm critical thinking — it depends on time constraints.

𝐃𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐀𝐈 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠? It’s one of the most pressing questions around AI. But maybe the better one is: 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬? In our #CHI2026 paper, we find that 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 changes everything.

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#criticalthinking #decisionmaking #civicparticipation

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[AI and Close Reading] Can AI help us interpret culture? AI is already becoming part of how people read cultural texts online. What does AI do for cultural interpretation? We explored this question in a randomized experiment investigating the impact of AI a...

𝑪𝒂𝒏 𝑨𝑰 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒑 𝒖𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒕 𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆? In our new #CHI2026 paper, we studied how AI assistance affects close reading poems — not just how well people interpret poems, but also the pleasure derived from close reading. closereading-ai.app
#AI #HCI #closereading #humanities #culture #poetry

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