Impact of GenAI using Auto Content Generation Tools on Cognitive Thinking Process in Academia

In today’s world, there is a drastic change in how tools are auto-generating content. These content generation tools that use generative AI make it easier to write blogs, generate content, reply to emails, create and publish content quickly, parse text, and refer to specific information very quickly and with ease. Students use these tools in colleges and educational institutions daily on social media. GenAI tools help reconstruct sentences, correct grammar, use proper words, auto-filling information, and preempt words that make the user not think but instead follow the prompts. GenAI will impact future generations because they cannot be self-reliant and rely heavily on artificial intelligence to form sentences and write the essential content. There must be a need for AI awareness and governance adoption in AI applications and tools as an integral process with a balance on how AI adoption in educational and social networks should enrich and promote individuals in the learning process and dynamically adjust to the individual requirements and help them in crafting sentences intelligently, build information and ideas that encourage thinking process, and using standard English conventions and expression of ideas. The primary focus of this paper is to introduce the challenges of GenAI adoption in applications and tools we use daily and its exposure to Gen X, Gen Y, Gen Z, and Gen Alpha. In this paper, we will bring awareness to such GenAI tools that can adversely impact the growth of individual cognitive thinking processes and the measures that citizens should take so that Human Intelligence prevails over Artificial Intelligence.