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Peer-reviewed research published January 2025 shows significant negative correlation between frequent AI tool usage and critical thinking abilities in children, mediated by cognitive offloading. When your model provides complete problem-solving plans from start to finish, the developmental struggle that builds executive function is bypassed. The skill never forms. This is not speculative. This is published neurocognitive research. The plaintiff's expert witness has already been credentialed in the literature. Your product team has not read it. Audience: Heads of product at companies building AI tutoring and homework assistance tools. Policy teams drafting acceptable use policies for education verticals. Trust and Safety leads evaluating whether "helpful" completion behavior constitutes harm in developmental contexts. Why it matters now: 58% of teens already use AI tools for schoolwork. The Character.AI litigation has established that "foreseeable psychological harm from product design" is a viable theory of liability. Executive function displacement is a more diffuse harm than suicide, but it affects a larger population. The first class action will not require proving that your product caused a death. It will require proving that your product's design foreseeably interfered with normal cognitive development. The research base for that argument is being built now.