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Randomized trial finds AI and critical-thinking training offer complementary gains

A randomized experiment with more than 1,000 Bocconi University students found that GPT-4o access improved rubric scores and coherence, while causal-reasoning training increased idea variety; students receiving both retained both kinds of benefit.

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CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
AWAY FROM DOOM23confidence 72/100

Why it moved the index

The randomized design and human grading provide practical evidence that targeted reasoning instruction can preserve a distinct human advantage in originality while students use a capable model. The result is limited to one university assignment, and OpenAI collaborated on and reported the study, so it supports a moderate rather than broad resilience claim.

Assessment history

  1. R1
    Away 23 · confidence 72

    New randomized practical evidence distinguishes AI-assisted performance gains from separate originality gains produced by causal-reasoning training.

    27 Aug 2026

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  1. DoomBench assesses “Randomized trial finds AI and critical-thinking training offer complementary gains” as evidence moving away from doom, with magnitude 23 and confidence 72 out of 100 in the human resilience category.

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