randonlovejoy/cranmer-ai-brain-rot-sources: Research sources and brief evidence notes from Miles Cranmer’s talk, “How to Avoid AI Brain Rot,” examining AI-assisted learning, cognitive skills, expertise, and human agency. ·
Research sources and brief evidence notes from Miles Cranmer’s talk, “How to Avoid AI Brain Rot,” examining AI-assisted learning, cognitive skills, expertise, and human agency. Source index assembled October 17, 2026 Talk: https://x.com/MilesCranmer/status/2111105654211608847 I went through a higher-resolution recording and identified 13 research references from the slides. They are collected below in the order in which they appear, with approximate timestamps and a sentence on what each source actually addresses. Some slide changes may have fallen between the 15-second screenshots, so this is a recovered reading list, not a claim to be the lecturer's complete official bibliography. 02:30 — Pew Research Center (2026), AI chatbot use and attitudes by age. Original Pew report. Survey of U.S. adults; an ever used figure is not a measure of AI proficiency or worldwide adoption. 04:30 — Jiang et al. (NeurIPS 2025), Artificial Hivemind: The Open-Ended Homogeneity of Language Models (and Beyo