Is Using ChatGPT to Write Your Essay Bad for Your Brain? New MIT Study Explained.

Does ChatGPT harm critical thinking abilities? A new study from researchers at MIT’s Media Lab has returned some concerning results. The study divided 54 subjects—18 to 39 year-olds from the Boston area—into three groups, and asked them to write several SAT essays using OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s search engine, and nothing at all, respectively. Researchers used an EEG to record the writers’ brain activity across 32 regions, and found that of the three groups, ChatGPT users had the lowest brain engagement and “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.” Over the course of several months, ChatGPT users got lazier with each subsequent essay, often resorting to copy-and-paste by the end of the study. Read more: https://ti.me/4et7YN8 Subscribe to TIME Breaking News YouTube Channel ►►: https://ti.me/3ROMUXY Subscribe to TIME’s YouTube channel ►► http://ti.me/subscribe-time Subscribe to TIME: https://ti.me/3E3UCqt Get the day’s top headlines to your inbox, curated by TIME editors: https://ti.me/48dFNwQ Follow us: X (Twitter): https://ti.me/3xTVwSk Facebook: https://ti.me/3xWI2Fg Instagram: https://ti.me/3dO9Rcc 0:00 Does ChatGPT Make Us Dumber? 1:04 How the MIT ChatGPT Essay Study Worked 2:04 What Researchers Found in Students’ Essays 2:28 Measuring Brain Activity With EEG 3:20 ChatGPT Users Showed the Lowest Brain Engagement 3:37 Students Switched Between ChatGPT and Brain-Only Writing 4:16 Why Using ChatGPT Later Improved Performance 4:46 The Case for Thinking Before Using AI 5:50 Does ChatGPT Erode Critical Thinking? 6:55 The Study’s Limitations and Why More Research Is Needed 7:03 Why Researchers Released the Findings Early 7:50 Should Schools Slow Down AI Adoption? #ChatGPT #AI