Note: this lemmy post was originally titled MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline and linked to this article, which I cross-posted from this post in !fuck_ai@lemmy.world.
Someone pointed out that the “Science, Public Health Policy and the Law” website which published this click-bait summary of the MIT study is not a reputable publication deserving of traffic, so, 16 hours after posting it I am editing this post (as well as the two other cross-posts I made of it) to link to MIT’s page about the study instead.
The actual paper is here and was previously posted on !fuck_ai@lemmy.world and other lemmy communities here.
Note that the study with its original title got far less upvotes than the click-bait summary did 🤡
Humans have used other things to act as reminders of things and, more importantly, as recorders for numbers, so I really doubt “decline in brain volume” happened because of writing. Not only that, literacy was low throughout most of human history and usually confined to small groups, which rarely included the nobles, by the way - they would just have a servant that could read/write for them.
It’s deliciously ironic that we only know about those ancient greek snobs who despised writing thanks to their words being written.