Frontier AI companies have acknowledged how offloading tasks to chatbots can reduce one’s baseline understanding and mastery of a subject. Instead of defaulting to quick answers, AI responses could default to being more instructive, like a tutor, Christian said.

Sure, but the whole reason AI responses are designed to offload instead of instruct is because they want us dependent.

Or, there is an easier explanation:

Research shows that it takes an average of 23 minutes and 15 seconds to regain focus after an interruption.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/388110139_The_Impact_of_Interruptions