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
The upside of AI
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RVATechJam
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Google Voice
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Congratulations Impact Makers
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DropBox Security
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