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Here’s How Long You Can Use AI Before Your Brain Starts Rotting, According to Scientists

Go ahead and delete that AI app off your phone. 

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Sure, by now we all know that overusing AI can rot your brain. If you stop doing the critical thinking needed to solve your own problems and start outsourcing everything to a chatbot, eventually your mental muscles are going to atrophy a little. So all you have to do is not rely on it too much, and problem solved, right? Nah.

According to a new study from researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Oxford, and University of California, Los Angeles, it may only take about 10 minutes of AI use for your brain........

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