The Retracted AI Study and the Kids Who Won’t Think Anymore

I sat with the morning coffee gone cold and read about the retraction. Not some minor footnote business. A paper in a real journal that swore ChatGPT made students sharper — better at problem-solving, better at seeing the big picture — pulled because the numbers didn’t hold up. The editors lost confidence. The synthesis of dozens of studies turned out to be a house of cards built on shaky work.