Psychologists shouldn't replace thinking with AI, researchers warn

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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."