There’s an article published at MIT that studied “Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

This blog post was pitched as a rebuttal of sorts to the MIT study – definitely worth the read:

https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/against-brain-damage?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

 

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One Useful Thing is the name of Ethan Mollick's substack newsletter.  Ethan is the Co-Director of the Wharton Generative AI Labs. Wharton Generative AI Labs has lots of good information including a prompt library: https://gail.wharton.upenn.edu/prompt-library/ Check...

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Contact page on the home screen, SuperPWA FTW

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Advanced Google Analytics Academy, part 1

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