AI Assistance Weakens Sense of Ownership Over Work, Study Finds

A study by Brown, CMU and UC Berkeley finds that people who merely approve AI output lose their sense of ownership over the work, and that 63% of disowned AI-completed tasks were ones participants could have done themselves, with personal agency being the key factor.

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