brAIn drAIn - by Erik Hoel - The Intrinsic Perspective

The enhancement and atrophy of human cognition go hand in hand

brAIn drAIn The enhancement and atrophy of human cognition go hand in hand Erik Hoel Feb 13, 2025 607 58 118 Share Art for The Intrinsic Perspective is by Alexander Naughton Unfortunately, there’s a growing subfield of psychology research pointing to cognitive atrophy from too much AI usage. Evidence includes a new paper published by a cohort of researchers at Microsoft (not exactly a group predisposed to finding evidence for brain drain). Yet they do indeed see the effect in the critical thinking of knowledge workers who make heavy use of AI in their workflows. To measure this, the researcher

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