Psychologists shouldn't replace thinking with AI, researchers warn (opens in new tab)

For some psychologists, it's becoming more common to use AI systems to replace human thinking in research. That's a very risky choice based on misconceptions, warn Iris van Rooij and Olivia Guest in a new paper published today in Current Directions in Psychological Science. "Research based on artificial intelligence models will never be an adequate substitute for understanding and replicating human thought."