Artificial intelligence: a new challenge for critical thinking or its key to success

in the modern world, the development of artificial intelligence raises many discussions and questions. One of the main questions is: is artificial intelligea threat to critical thinking, or can it become a powerful tool for achieving success? Nowadays, the accelerated automation of processes and the growth of tasks create the need to train specialists with developed critical thinking in the successfully adapt to the modern labor market. This article gives the concept of critical thinking and artificial intelligence, examines the potential of the new technology. The role of critical thinking in education is necessary for understanding and analyzing ideas and arguments, evaluating their justifications, as well as for problem solving and decision-making. The purpose of automation and the development of generative artificial intelligence on the content and methods of the higher education system. The article presents the result of the conducted research, which was conducted on the basis of Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University named after K. Minin, Department of Information Systems and Digital Services in Management. The task of which was to find out how artificial intelligence affects critical thinking.

critical thinking, artificial intelligence, education, information, assessment, new technologies