"Think AI makes you smarter? Probably not, according to Saul Perlmutter, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who was credited for discovering that the universe's expansion is accelerating. He said AI's biggest danger is psychological: it can give people the illusion they understand something when they don't, weakening judgment just as the technology becomes more embedded in our daily work and learning."
""The positive is that when you know all these different tools and approaches to how to think about a problem, AI can often help you find the bit of information that you need," he said. At UC Berkeley, where Perlmutter teaches, he and his colleagues developed a critical-thinking course centered on scientific reasoning, including probabilistic thinking, error-checking, skepticism, and structured disagreement, taught through games, exercises, and discussion designed to make those habits automatic in everyday decisions."
AI can create a psychological illusion of understanding, leading people to believe they grasp fundamentals before actually learning them. This illusion can weaken judgment as AI becomes embedded in work and learning, and can cause students to rely on AI prematurely instead of doing intellectual work themselves. AI should be used as a tool that supports thinking rather than substitutes for human reasoning. Users must apply probabilistic thinking, skepticism, and constant error-checking to AI outputs. Educational approaches can teach these habits through scientific reasoning, probabilistic methods, structured disagreement, games, exercises, and discussion.
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