Thinking Through...AI & Working Memory with Dr. Whitney Hansen and Dr. Allison Lester

What happens to our brains when AI starts carrying more of the cognitive load? In this episode of Thinking Through, ASU student Ana Carolina Oliveira and I sit down with Dr. Whitney Hansen to talk about AI’s impact on working memory, learning, attention, and cognitive offloading. We explore what happens when we rely on AI to remember, organize, summarize, and retrieve information for us, and whether that frees us to think more deeply or changes some of the mental muscles we need to keep exercising. Watch, listen, and keep thinking through it with us.