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AI Is Breaking Our Brains

AI Is Breaking Our Brains

Update: 2025-02-12
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This week we discuss a new Microsoft study that finds using generative AI is "atrophying" people's cognition and critical thinking skills and the right's war on Wikipedia.


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Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”

Wikipedia Prepares for 'Increase in Threats' to US Editors From Musk and His Allies

You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism

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