
MIT Study Warns: ChatGPT Could Be Lowering Your Brain Capacity
In June 2025, researchers from the MIT Media Lab published a study called Your Brain on ChatGPT. It looked into a growing concern: is using AI to write for us slowly making our brains less active? The team focused on ChatGPT and how it affects memory, brain activity, and the feeling of ownership when we write. With more students and professionals turning to AI tools for writing, studying, and even thinking, it’s an important question: Are we learning with AI—or letting it think for us? To find out, researchers recruited 54 students and recent grads (ages 18–39) from top U.S. universities like MIT, Harvard, Tufts, and Wellesley. They divided them into three groups: All three […]