I do believe that AI tools, especially in coding, cause abilities to atrophy. However after reviewing the paper I find it less than convincing. There is a -0.68

I do believe that AI tools, especially in coding, cause abilities to atrophy. However after reviewing the paper I find it less than convincing. There is a -0.68 correlation but as it appears to mostly rely on self-reported data and does not tell us what the actual scores are I don't know what this means. Plus I don't know if these are long term effects or just short term. Although they might have beat me to it, "One potential direction is to investigate the longitudinal effects of AI tool usage on critical thinking skills over time."