AI RESEARCH
Disrupting Cognitive Passivity: Rethinking AI-Assisted Data Literacy through Cognitive Alignment
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2604.02783v1 Announce Type: cross AI chatbots are increasingly stepping into roles as collaborators or teachers in analyzing, visualizing, and reasoning through data and domain problem. Yet, AI's default assistant mode with its comprehensive and one-off responses may undermine opportunities for practitioners to develop literacy through their own thinking, inducing cognitive passivity.