# Generative AI impact on learning

A Nature news feature reviews educators' and cognitive researchers' concerns that generative AI may erode students' critical thinking, and centres on a Nature Reviews Psychology comment arguing that generative AI can boost learners' performance without promoting the deep cognitive and metacognitive processing required for high-quality learning, while also describing long-running OECD work on teaching and assessing critical thinking.

A Nature news feature reviews educators' and cognitive researchers' concerns that generative AI may erode students' critical thinking, and centres on a Nature Reviews Psychology comment arguing that generative AI can boost learners' performance without promoting the deep cognitive and metacognitive processing required for high-quality learning, while also describing long-running OECD work on teaching and assessing critical thinking.