Are you using AI to think — or letting it think for you? Vivienne Ming, chief scientist at the Possibility Institute, a metascience research group, and founder of Socos Labs, an AI and education firm, says the tech is splitting people into two groups: a small minority who use it to think better, and a much larger majority who use it to think less . "The overwhelming trend is substitution," Ming said in a recent interview with Business Insider in London. Instead of using AI to deepen their