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In this episode:Are we outsourcing our thinking to ChatGPT? What happens in your brain—and to your sense of ownership—when you let an AI do the heavy lifting? I dig deep into the MIT Media Lab study that set the internet on fire, exposing what really happens when students use AI, Google, or just their own brains to write essays.

We’ll cover:

- The brain science behind “cognitive debt”—and why LLM users struggled to remember their own words

- Why essays graded by AI get inflated scores, while humans spot the soullessness every time

- The hidden risks of writing for the algorithm, not for meaning

- Why viral research matters (even if the science is messy)

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