10 Minutes of AI Can Make You Worse at Hard Problems, Berkeley Study Finds
UC Berkeley researcher Brian Christian co-authored the peer-reviewed study, presented this week at the Conference on Language Modeling, finding that around 10 minutes of relying on an AI tool significantly impaired focus and persistence — and that asking for direct answers, not hints, was what caused the damage. Christian told Berkeley News it confirms “a story that a lot of us kind of feel in our gut.” Sources: Berkeley News, Indian Express, Psychology Today, October 2026. ...