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Your Brain on AI — What MIT Found Is Not Laziness
MIT researchers wired students' brains to EEG while they wrote essays with ChatGPT — and found something more specific than 'AI makes you lazy.'
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9:45Your Brain on AI — What MIT Found Is Not Laziness
A visual breakdown of the 2025 MIT Media Lab EEG study on writing with ChatGPT — how brain connectivity was measured, and what happened when habitual ChatGPT users had to write without it.
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