“I use AI every day…” NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang says AI isn’t making people dumber

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Is AI really making people dumber? NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang doesn’t think so. Reacting to a recent MIT study that claimed using AI could lower cognitive abilities, Huang kept it simple and blunt: “I haven’t read the MIT research lol.”

Huang, who leads one of the biggest tech companies in the world, said that in his own experience, AI has done the opposite. “I literally use AI every day and my cognitive skills are actually advancing,” he said. He explained that his day-to-day job as a CEO largely involves asking good questions — and AI helps sharpen that skill.

“I’m not asking a machine to teach me what I already know,” Huang said. Instead, he uses AI to learn new things and solve problems he hasn’t encountered before. In his view, how people use AI matters more than the technology itself.

Huang joked that he’s not sure what kind of questions people are asking AI if it’s making them “dumber.” “Skill issue,” he said, suggesting that it’s not AI’s fault but how people engage with it.

He argued that prompting AI well and using critical thinking to question its answers can actually improve brainpower. “Critiquing, criticizing AI’s answers using critical thinking enhances cognitive skills,” he explained.

His advice to anyone concerned about AI making them think less? “Apply critical thinking.”

While the MIT study raised concerns about over-reliance on AI, Huang’s response is clear, AI is just a tool, and it’s up to people to use it wisely.