{"id":182763,"date":"2024-02-15T13:22:54","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T19:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/ai-may-be-atrophying-our-brains-professor-warns"},"modified":"2024-02-15T13:22:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T19:22:54","slug":"ai-may-be-atrophying-our-brains-professor-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/ai-may-be-atrophying-our-brains-professor-warns","title":{"rendered":"AI May Be Atrophying Our Brains, Professor Warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-may-be-atrophying-our-brains-professor-warns2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just like smartphone GPS has harmed our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/journals\/psychology\/articles\/10.3389\/fpsyg.2022.983019\/full\" class=\"\">sense of spatial cognition<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/how-gps-weakens-memory-mdash-and-what-we-can-do-about-it\/\" class=\"\">memory<\/a>, artificial intelligence may soon impair our ability to make decisions for ourselves \u2014 an outcome that would be, one expert warns, \u201ccatastrophic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psypost.org\/2024\/02\/catastrophic-effects-can-ai-turn-us-into-imbeciles-this-scientists-fears-for-the-worst-221382\" class=\"\">interview with <em>PsyPost<\/em><\/a>, neuropsychology expert Umberto Le\u00f3n Dom\u00ednguez of the University of Monterrey in Mexico said that his new research shows that AI chatbots may end up not just mimicking our speech patterns, but significantly harming our cognitive functioning in general.<\/p>\n<p>Like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nea.org\/nea-today\/all-news-articles\/chatgpt-enters-classroom-teachers-weigh-pros-and-cons\" class=\"\">many other educators<\/a>, Dom\u00ednguez said he\u2019s concerned about how his students are using tools like OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT. Spurred by those concerns, he told <em>PsyPost<\/em>, he began to explore ways AI chatbots \u201ccould interfere with higher-order executive functions to understand how to also train these skills.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just like smartphone GPS has harmed our sense of spatial cognition and memory, artificial intelligence may soon impair our ability to make decisions for ourselves \u2014 an outcome that would be, one expert warns, \u201ccatastrophic.\u201d In an interview with PsyPost, neuropsychology expert Umberto Le\u00f3n Dom\u00ednguez of the University of Monterrey in Mexico said that his [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}