AI Isn’t Coming For Your Job. It’s Coming For Your Mind Highlight

MIT studied participants’ brains over four months as they wrote essays under three conditions: unaided, with search engines or with AI assistants. The results were stark. AI users showed the weakest connectivity of all three groups, indicating they were barely engaged. By the third session, they had essentially outsourced the entire writing process. When later asked to write without AI, they remembered little of their own earlier essays and showed weaker brain activity associated with deep memory encoding. Most strikingly, 83 per cent of the AI users couldn’t provide a single correct quote from essays they had written just minutes earlier. The effort that builds durable learning had been bypassed entirely.