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Research01 · Thinking

Area 01 of 06

How people think and recover attention

Attention, emotion, judgment, recovery, and long-term thinking: how minds stay sharp when AI is always available.

Questions we ask

What happens to attention and recovery when a model is always ready?
We watch whether people can still sit with a hard question before opening a chat.

Related concerns

Everyday judgment leaving the person
63 / 75 · miss -12
We mean the quiet, everyday habit of asking a model what is true, what to buy, what to say to a partner, or what a symptom means.
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From the library

Oct 18, 2026Attention is the first capacity

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Sourced measurements

Published measurements tied to concerns in this research area.

Observations JSON

Judgment · load · tier 1 · 75 pts
Share of US adults who use AI chatbots for health information or advice at least monthly
20%
US adults · published 2026-06-11
“To get medical advice — 20%”
Pew Research Center — Search and work are the most common uses for chatbots, 1 in 10 use these tools for emotional support
Pew reports ever-use for medical advice among U.S. adults; panel asks at-least-monthly — treat as upper-bound load until a monthly cut publishes.
Judgment · perception · tier 1 · 75 pts
Share of US adults who say AI will worsen people's ability to think
53%
US adults · published 2025-09-17
“53% say AI will worsen people’s ability to think creatively, compared with 16% who say it will improve this.”
Pew Research Center — How Americans View AI and Its Impact on People and Society
Closest national measure to ability-to-think concern; wording is think creatively.
Judgment · load · tier 1 · 50 pts
Share of US adults who have used ChatGPT or another AI chatbot
34%
US adults · published 2025-06-25
“Today, 34% of U.S. adults say they have ever used ChatGPT, according to a Pew Research Center survey.”
Pew Research Center — 34% of U.S. adults have used ChatGPT, about double the share in 2023
Panel asks ChatGPT or another chatbot; Pew measures ChatGPT specifically — a floor on broader chatbot use.