Is AI doing your thinking?
A short self-check of how you use AI and other tech: as support for your own thinking, or as a stand-in for it. For adults of any age, whether you use AI every day or hardly at all.
- About 4 minutes
- 14 to 22 questions
- Built on published research
This helps show how habits differ across ages and walks of life. We save your answers, age bracket and result, never your name, email or IP address. Answers from anyone under 18 are never saved. We also keep an anonymous daily count of how many people start and finish.
What it measures
Research increasingly finds that how you use AI matters more than how much. Letting it think for you is linked to weaker independent thinking; using it to support your thinking, or to take over tasks you'd never learn from, isn't. This check scores five habits, and rewards good use of AI rather than avoiding it.
Every question uses the same five answers:
How scientific is this?
Each question is drawn from a published study, listed below. The check itself is a self-reflection tool, not a validated psychological test or a diagnosis. Much of the AI research is new, and some studies are small or correlational, so read your result as a well-informed ballpark.
The research behind it
Tip: press 1–6 to answer, ← to go back.
Your over-reliance score
A self-check built on published research, not a validated test or a diagnosis. Read it as a ballpark, give or take 10 points.
What this means
Three things to try this week
Picked from your lowest areas. Small on purpose.
Your breakdown
Higher is better in every row. Each area is scored 0 to 100 from three questions.
What the research says
Share the check
Your link shows your score and invites the other person to take it.
The fine print
What this check is, and isn't
This is a self-reflection tool, not a validated psychological instrument or a medical test. Its questions and scoring are built from published research, but the check itself hasn't been validated. Most of the AI research is recent, many studies are correlational, and some are small or not yet peer reviewed.
Health and neurological differences can affect focus, memory and navigation in ways this check can't tell apart from habits. If you're worried about your memory or thinking, talk to a doctor; that's a different conversation from this check.
How scoring works
Each answer scores 0 to 4. For some questions "Always" is the strong answer, for others "Never" is, so there's no pattern to coast on. Each area's score is the average of its questions, scaled to 0–100. Your over-reliance score is 100 minus the average of the five areas, each weighted equally. If you rarely use AI, it's based on the seven questions everyone answers instead.
"Doesn't apply" answers are left out rather than counted against you. Levels: Low under 25, Mild 25–44, Moderate 45–64, High 65 and over. The brain-health habits questions are reported separately and never change your score.
What gets saved
If the switch on the first screen was on and you're 18 or over, we save your answers, age bracket, what fills your week, how often you use AI, your scores, the date and how long the check took. We never save your name, email, IP address or device details. We also keep an anonymous count of how many checks are started and finished each day.