How to Course-correct What AI Has Done to Our Brains

The headline of a recent edition of The Guardian said, "Don't ask what AI can do for us, ask what it is doing to us." It was a report on how artificial intelligence (AI) has reduced our cognitive abilities.

Consider this statement: AI will always be smarter than you are, but AI will never be wiser than you are if you continue to grow socially and emotionally. People are savvy to their AI devices—but so far, it's made our brains weaker. MIT completed a study to find out what AI is doing to students' brains. Three groups of 54 people were asked to write an essay. One group used ChatGPT, another group used search engines and the third group wrote the essay entirely on their own.

The study found that those who did not utilize AI showed the strongest brain connectivity. Those who used ChatGPT showed the weakest neural engagement. Those who used AI couldn't remember a single sentence of the essay they had written just moments earlier. Researchers called this effect "cognitive debt."

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