MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline

Posted by cainxinth 9/3/2025

MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline(publichealthpolicyjournal.com)

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kelsey98765431 9/3/2025|

Misleading title, the article explicitly says when used to cheat on essays.

m3kw9 9/3/2025||

Is calculator/excel a bad thing? I'm ok with not having fast calculation(cognitive decline in that area) as it frees me to do other things that crops up as a result of the speed.

stevenjgarner 9/3/2025||

This MIT study does not seem to address whether AI use causes true cognitive decline, or simply shifts the role of cognition from "doing the task" to "managing the task"?

stevenjgarner 9/3/2025||

This study does not seem to address whether AI use causes true cognitive decline, or simply shifts the role of cognition from "doing the task" to "managing the task"?

j4hdufd8 9/3/2025||

"The Court did recognize that divesting Chrome and Android would have gone beyond the case’s focus on search distribution, and would have harmed consumers and our partners."

Absolute idiots

tqwhite 9/3/2025||

What a load of crap. I don't believe it for one second. Also, AI has only been an important influence for about twenty minutes.

Here's what I think: AI causes you to forget how to program but causes you to learn how to plan.

Also, AI enhances who you are. Dummies get dummer. Smarties get smarter.

But that's not proven. It's anecdote. And I don't believe anyone knows what is really happening and those that claim to are counterproductive.

jugg1es 9/3/2025||

I think you are looking at this from a too-narrow lens. What happens when people have ChatGPT built into their eyeglasses and they use it for literally everything. Ray-Ban is already selling this as a product.

tim333 9/3/2025||

I too am leaning towards the load of crap hypothesis.

m3kw9 9/3/2025||

For those not critical of what AI says, this will be a bigger issue, they will just by pass their own decision making and paste AI response, likely atrophying that thought process

yayitswei 9/3/2025||

Management roles have always involved outsourcing cognitive work to subordinates. Are we seeing a cognitive decline there too? Maybe delegation was the original misalignment problem.

briandw 9/3/2025||

This is standard response to any new technology. Socrates call books the death of knowledge, in the 19th century there was a moral panic about girls reading novels etc etc.

mensetmanusman 9/3/2025|

Depends how you use it:

https://youtu.be/omYP8IUXQTs?si=SgehtLWjnNho5MR6

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