00:00By 2025, people were sending around 2.5 billion prompts a day to chat GPT, according to OpenAI.
00:07AI is becoming a smart digital assistant for everything, from writing and research to
00:12translating and planning our day-to-day. Researchers call this cognitive offloading,
00:18letting technology handle mental tasks for us. For decades, we've used technology to make life
00:23easier. AI has the same properties, but it is obviously more complex than calculators or GPS,
00:31and that causes some problems, so it makes it less transparent to understand if the output
00:37should be trusted. On top of that, AI is generating stunningly complex answers that can sound very
00:44convincing and well thought out. That's where some researchers see a big risk. It's not so much that
00:49AI is making us less intelligent, but it may discourage us from engaging with problems
00:54as deeply as we once did. To find out what happens when people rely too heavily on AI,
01:00researchers at the TU Berlin conducted a study. They monitored the brainwave activity of subjects
01:05that were completing visual tasks with the help of AI. What I tested was a brief demonstration of
01:11how trust in AI can change the way we use our own cognitive resources. In short, when the AI
01:16assistant performed well, I, as many participants, relied on it more and used less of my own
01:22attention and memory. But as soon as the assistant became unreliable, test subjects quickly re-engaged
01:28and took back control. This was the first time researchers were able to observe and measure human's
01:34trust in AI systems. The findings suggest that trust doesn't just change how much we use AI.
01:39It also affects how much mental effort we're willing to invest ourselves.
01:44Some researchers worry that over time that could alter the way we approach problems and make decisions.
01:51Instead of exploring different options ourselves, we may increasingly treat the machine's answer as
01:56our starting point. What people don't do anymore is consider alternatives. So the focus is then very
02:04strongly on verifying this response, but not thinking, are there other responses, are there other problem
02:10solutions. And that is an important part of human critical thinking to consider alternatives.
02:19But the story isn't all bad. As AI takes over some of our cognitive workload,
02:24it may also free us up to focus more on other things.
02:27I'm assuming we'll be moving forward.
02:27You know how to be able to achieve this sort of success.
02:28You know how to achieve this space.
02:29There's a solution for which we have to achieve the development of tools.
02:32You
