MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline
Share on X Share on LinkedIn Share on Facebook Email this Page MIT Study Finds Artificial Intelligence Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline Feed By Nicolas Hulscher, MPH A new MIT study titled, Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task, has found that using ChatGPT to help write essays leads to long-term cognitive harm—measurable through EEG brain scans. Students who repeatedly relied on ChatGPT showed weakened neural connectivity, impaired memory recall, and diminished sense of ownership over their own writing. While the AI-generated content often scored well, the brains behind it were shutting down. The findings are clear: Large Language Models (LLMs) like…
