Anyone with any critical sense at all must be concerned about the use of AI. More than any other human invention, AI represents an abandonment of critical sense. I think this is obvious. I do not think it needs demonstration. But we are in a demonstrative age, always seeking evidence, data and so on, so it is good to see that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has just produced a long report of some 200 pages to show that AI seems to reduce brain function and could have a catastrophic effect on brain development.
Natalia Kosmyna, a scholar at the MIT Media Lab, designed a study, which was carried out with seven colleagues, which has led to the publication of an as-yet non-peer-reviewed paper entitled: Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task.’
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