As AI becomes more prevalent in education, work and social life, research is increasingly focused on understanding its nuanced effects on core cognitive functions such as memory, attention and ...

Read other stories from the "These stories were not AI-generated" special edition here. Artificial intelligence usage isn’t just rising among students — it’s rising among professors, to In a 2025 ...

A few years ago I wrote about digital-induced amnesia—the erosion of memory that occurs as we outsource thinking to our devices. I later reflected on technostress, the strain that occurs as those ...

With so many artificial intelligence (AI) products on offer now, it’s increasingly tempting to offload difficult thinking tasks to chatbots, agents and other tools. As we chart this new technological ...

Source: Walther. ChatGTP. 2025 Today the foundations of truth, and trust, are systematically eroded by a hybrid hurricane: artificial intelligence sophisticated enough to mimic reality, with human ...

Kyle Orland of ArsTechnica wrote a blog post about the term “cognitive surrender” on April 3. Maybe I should have noticed it sooner since it’s been floating around since at least January, when it was, ...

When it comes to large language model-powered tools, there are generally two broad categories of users. On one side are those who treat AI as a powerful but sometimes faulty service that needs careful ...