Is ChatGPT Dumbing Down your Kid? A New MIT Study Says, “Yes.”

About this episode

The episode discusses a new MIT study indicating that AI, specifically ChatGPT, may be diminishing the thinking skills of young people.

We finally have emerging research on Artificial Intelligence's consequences for actual intelligence . If you're an educator or parent--or if you're anyone who just thinks that thinking is important--then you need to learn about this study. It offers hard evidence that our young people are in danger of diminished thinking skills for life. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit pearlmanactualintelligence.substack.com

People in this episode

Host: Steve Pearlman

Topics covered

• Artificial Intelligence
• education
• thinking skills
• research
• youth development

Keywords

• ChatGPT
• MIT study
• thinking skills
• education
• artificial intelligence

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: MIT

Products: ChatGPT

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