News Summary

• AI doesn't cause dementia, but how you use it could weaken one of the brain's core defenses against it.
• Vivienne Ming, a theoretical neuroscientist, is the chief scientist at the Possibility Institute.
• Ming worries that routinely outsourcing thinking to AI could reduce cognitive engagement and make it harder to build cognitive reserve.
• "GPT is the new GPS," Ming said, referring to OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT, which she said could erode cognitive skills if people increasingly rely on it to think for them.