Ep 159: Your Brain on AI: The Hidden Cognitive Cost of Using ChatGPT

🧠 Your Brain on AI: The Hidden Cognitive Cost You Need to Know

Today, I share how AI is reshaping our minds. And not necessarily for the better. Did you know that AI companies want a 10-year window where they can use all our online content without giving us credit? Congress is finally fighting back with a 99-to-1 vote for AI boundaries!

But here’s what really concerns me. We’re losing essential cognitive abilities. Just like kids today can’t tie shoes because of Velcro and Crocs, we’re losing fine motor skills that directly impact brain development.
I also explain the connection between handwriting, the sensory motor cortex, and your parietal lobe.

Recent research on ChatGPT users reveals alarming cognitive debt, weakened connections between your frontal and parietal lobes, affecting memory encoding and recall. When we let AI do our thinking, we lose the ability to think for ourselves.

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