Neuroscientist Dr. Farhan Khawaja Provides Three Examples of How People’s Increasing Reliance on AI Is Literally Shrinking Their Brains

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KHAWAJA: “Chat GPT is destroying your hippocampus and I'm gonna give you three examples how. Number one, if you look at taxi drivers who use a GPS, their hippocampus shrinks. Why? Because the hippocampus is in charge of memory and learning. So rather than exploring the world, rather than getting lost in a city, you depend on technology and that shrinks your hippocampus. Number two is when you are doing research. Rather than going into the unknown and doing things that are difficult, you want comfort. So you ask Chat GPT for every little thing. That makes your pattern recognition centers go lower and your critical thinking skills suck. And that is why you get dementia. Now number three, when you write an essay, when you write an email, when you write text, what do you do? You consult Chat GPT. That is a big mistake. Because rather than using your creative thinking, your alpha wave -- this was a study recently done by MIT and Harvard -- when you use your alpha waves, you can do pattern recognition, you can be creative in your writing, but you will not be able to do that if you use Chat GPT.”