aceWe all know a lack of exercise is bad for our bodies. So what is relying on AI doing to our brains? | Devi Sridhar
When I was a postgraduate student at the University of Oxford in the early 2000s, I interviewed for a major consulting firm. All my friends were being recruited, and I thought why not give it a shot? Aside from the usual maths-proficiency test (how quickly can you crunch numbers in front of a client and look smart), I was asked about what the future of streaming could look like. I gave a long-winded answer about the unintended consequences of changing how humans interact with each other when a new technology is…
Widespread student use of generative AI in assessed work, alongside preliminary EEG evidence of weaker brain connectivity, raises concern that outsourcing thinking may erode cognition and learning over time.
The author states that true causal evidence may take decades to emerge, and the EEG study is described as preliminary, so harm to cognition from AI use is not established.
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- JournalismThe Guardian2026-09-25
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