arXiv AI By Sebastian Maier, Kai Schwabe, Manuel Schneider, Stefan Feuerriegel

Designing Against Deskilling: Metacognitive Feedback Reduces Cognitive Offloading to LLM Assistants

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The study investigates how to prevent skill loss from relying on AI assistants by testing two interventions. In a preregistered online experiment with 704 participants, metacognitive feedback—explicitly highlighting the consequences of offloading—significantly lowered the likelihood of users offloading answers to an LLM and improved their performance on a subsequent unaided test. No effect was found for an effort-based reward incentive. The findings suggest that metacognitive feedback is an effective design strategy to reduce cognitive offloading to AI.

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