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@article{205543,
        author = {Ranveer Singh and Aryan Somanna and Sidhesh Mishra and Shrey Jauhari and Abhijeet Pandey and Ridhuvarshini},
        title = {Artificial Intelligence Exposure and Human Mental Growth Trajectories: A Multiclass Predictive Analysis of Cognitive, Emotional, and Wellbeing Outcomes},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {13},
        number = {1},
        pages = {9140-9148},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=205543},
        abstract = {The proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) tools across professional, educational, and social domains has prompted urgent scholarly inquiry into their long-term effects on human cognitive and psychological development. This study investigates whether measurable dimensions of AI engagement — including usage intensity, dependency score, tool proficiency, and scenario context — combined with individual cognitive and emotional attributes, can predict discrete mental growth trajectories across a global population spanning five decades (2024–2075). Using a dataset of 52,000 records across nine regions, five demographic cohorts, and seven AI developmental eras, we train and evaluate four multiclass classifiers: Logistic Regression, Random Forest, XGBoost, and LightGBM. All models achieve remarkably high performance, with Logistic Regression attaining the highest validation accuracy of 99.71%, macro-averaged F1 of 0.9973, and ROC-AUC of 0.9999 on the held-out test set. SHAP-based explainability analysis identifies Mental Wellbeing Score, Social Interaction Quality, and Emotional Intelligence as the dominant predictors of outcome class membership. These findings suggest that psychological and social dimensions of AI exposure are more strongly associated with mental growth trajectories than raw usage metrics. Implications for AI policy, digital mental health interventions, and human-centered AI design are discussed.},
        keywords = {artificial intelligence; mental health; cognitive development; machine learning; multiclass classification; SHAP explainability; emotional intelligence; digital wellbeing; human-AI interaction},
        month = {June},
        }