ChatGPT is making you dumber, and Gen Z is secretly sabotaging AI

ChatGPT is making you dumber, and Gen Z is secretly sabotaging AI

April 29, 2026 · 50 min · Episode 98

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The episode discusses the cognitive debt from using ChatGPT, the challenges faced by AI models, and Gen Z's response to AI in the workplace.

In episode 98 of The AI Fix, guest host Nik Roberts explains the cognitive debt you're racking up every time you let ChatGPT do your thinking, and Mark explains the new eval that's got even the very best AI models completely stumped. Also in this episode, Nik learns how to pronounce "Mythos" and Mark learns how to pronounce "Kasparov"; Gen Z fights back against AI; Britain's AI Security Institute tests Mythos; DeepSeek casually drops a 1.6 trillion parameter model; and a Sony robot beats the elite at the world's most boring pastime. Episode links: Gen Z Sabotaging AI at Work So It Won't Take Their Job . Our evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview's cyber capabilities . DeepSeek previews new AI model that 'closes the gap' with frontier models . Inside Project Ace: Discover the Robot Athlete That Competes With Professional Table Tennis Players . Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task . Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity . The Verification Bottleneck: Why AI's Real Cost Is Human Attention . Announcing ARC-AGI-3 . The AI Fix The AI Fix podcast is presented by Mark…

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Host: Mark Stockley

Guest: Nik Roberts

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Organizations: Britain's AI Security Institute, DeepSeek, Sony

Books & works: Mythos, Claude Mythos Preview, Project Ace, Your Brain on ChatGPT, The Verification Bottleneck, ARC-AGI-3

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