Our brains are becoming more forgetful because we rely on external AI
The growing reliance on artificial intelligence and digital tools for storing information is triggering a phenomenon known as digital amnesia, where our brains prioritize how to find data rather than the data itself.
Offloading cognitive tasks to AI and search engines can weaken our biological memory through a process called cognitive offloading. When we know an external device will store a fact for us, our brains are less likely to encode that information into long term memory.
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