Does ChatGPT Switch Off Your Brain? MIT Says Yes.
MIT did something no one had tried before: they put people inside a brain scanner while they used ChatGPT. The result? A 47% drop in brain activity. Not an opinion. A number. And the most alarming part? The brain stayed quiet even after they stopped using the app.
83% of participants couldn’t remember a single sentence they had just written minutes earlier. Not because they were distracted. Because they were disconnected. Writing with AI made everything faster: 60% less time to complete tasks, but also required 32% less mental effort. Translation: we think less, we learn less.
And the writing? Technically correct, yes. But flat, predictable, soulless. Educators described it as “robotic.” No further comment needed.
The best performers did the opposite: they started without AI. They thought, wrote, reasoned. Only then did they use ChatGPT. And their results were better across the board: stronger memory, more brain activity, better outcomes.
The real question isn’t whether to use AI. It’s when to use it, and how much of ourselves we’re outsourcing. If we’re using it to avoid thinking, we’re giving up the part of the process that actually matters — the part where we understand what we’re doing.
Think first. Then, maybe, get help. Not the other way around.
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