Using AI could impact your ability to learn, think and remember, a new study has found.
Students who used large language models (LLM) like ChatGPT to write essays showed to have poorer memory, reduced brain activity and weaker engagement than those who used other methods, the study found.
Researchers at MIT Media Lab measured electrical activity in the brain to track 54 students over several essay-writing sessions.
One group used ChatGPT, another used Google and the last had no external help at all.
The group who used AI had a 'measurable impact' and had a 'likely decrease in learning skills', the academics at the research laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found.
