AI Is Halving Your Brain Connectivity, Study Finds

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:03]What is a number?

[00:00:04]And this is the difference. Like I I I can like give you the answer, but it's not going to give you the foundation so that you can solve other problems in the future. Because if I never told you what the number one was, you would never in the future be able to use it yourself.

[00:00:16]All you'd know is 1 + 1 = 2. But there's foundations. Like what are numbers? What is one? What is two? What is plus? That you need to understand to be able to do 1 + 2 = 3. Um and the study, one of the studies I looked at, which was it's been heavily discussed, was from last year.

[00:00:32]And they found staggering memory cost using generative AI. In the study, which I'll throw up on the screen, 83% of AI users were unable to remember the details of a passage of text that they had written with AI's assistance. EEG scans showed that brain connectivity was almost halved when individuals outsourced their thinking to AI compared to writing manually, which created cognitive debt. You get output faster, but you don't build the long-term neural hardware to understand the information or the knowledge.

[00:01:04]>> So true. It's so true. You know, what's interesting about what you just said is the when you're writing something, whether you're typing it or even actually the most, I think there's been some studies on this, like handwriting something, something [clears throat] about handwriting it really ingrains it into your memory. And I have this process when I'm trying to There's a lot of facts that I have to remember, you know, when I'm talking about them. And I have this process that I do, and the first one is the research.