Five floors up, research scientist Nataliya Kosmyna has been working on wearable brain-computer interfaces she hopes will one day enable people who cannot speak, due to neurodegenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, to communicate using their minds.
Kosmyna spends a lot of her time reading and analysing people’s brain states. Another project she is working on is a wearable device – one prototype looks like a pair of glasses – that can tell when someone is getting confused or losing focus. Around two years ago, she began receiving out-of-the blue emails from strangers who reported that they had started using large language models such as ChatGPT and felt their brain had changed as a result. Their memories didn’t seem as good – was that even possible, they asked her? Kosmyna herself had been struck by how quickly people had already begun to rely on generative AI. She noticed colleagues using ChatGPT at work, and the applications she received from researchers hoping to join her team started to look different. Their emails were longer and more formal and, sometimes, when she interviewed candidates on Zoom, she noticed they kept pausing before responding and looking off to the side – were they getting AI to help them, she wondered, shocked. And if they were using AI, how much did they even understand of the answers they were giving?
There's much more, but this is alarming.. RESIST!
Indeed it is. It is a well defined concept where humans allow something other than their own brain
Over the years, calculators, computers, and even map programs have reduced math skills, handwriting & world knowledge skills, and even our sense of direction. Why learn where places are when Google map will take you there with turn by turn results?
Depending on AI is not different, but it encompasses more than just a single skill.
It takes a draft dodger to do that. The weakest and laziest people can and will use AI for that kind of thing. Next tier up are those who use it to replace people, like dottir's bosses. Ai should HELP people. Not replace them. You can look away from a painting, but you can't listen away from a symphony
on October 19, 2025, 9:53 am
