Stephen Downes

When Miguel Guhlin linked to this I though there was an article it came from, and though I found a LinkedIn post, it's just the bibliography.  As the title suggests, what the 21 papers listed (all from between 2023 and 2025) show is that, far from causing a deterioration of critical thinking, AI can have the opposite effect, and actually promote it. Naturally, the first comment is that "many (or most) of the articles from this list are published in zero-quality journals." I can't really tell from my own experience which is true (my critical thinking roots run deep and aren't likely to be impacted by something so recent) but it seems reasonable to me that (a) AI doesn't degrade critical thinking, but also, that it makes it different (which from a certain perspective might seem like degradation).