{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"We Think We Know","title":"Is ChatGPT Making Us Dumber? Neuroscientist On How AI Changes Our Brains","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4402,"description":"Neuroscientist and neuro-futurologist Professor Joel Pearson reveals what AI is really doing to our brains, our relationships, and our grip on reality — from cognitive atrophy and the loneliness trap to the rise of AI companions and what he calls the uncertainty pandemic.\nProfessor Joel Pearson is a neuroscientist and neuro-futurologist based at UNSW, where he leads the Future Minds Lab.\n\nHe explains:\nHow AI use is quietly reshaping our cognitive abilities\nWhy we're falling into a loneliness trap despite constant connection\nWhat AI companions are doing to our capacity for real relationships\nWhy he calls this moment the uncertainty pandemic\nWhat we can actually do to protect our minds in the AI era\n\nTopics: \n■ Intelligence, Not Technology: Why calling AI a “technology revolution” is a category mistake, like thinking electricity was just a better candle, and why that mislabelling leads us to underestimate what’s coming.\n■ The Uncertainty Pandemic: The brain treats not knowing the future like a threat, and exponential change makes the future close to impossible to predict. He explains why this is driving stress and anxiety, and why it’s not a personal failing.\n■ Cognitive Upsizing: If you outsource your thinking to AI, the effort of thinking hard gets harder over time. His fix is to use AI to stay competitive, then keep wrestling with bigger, juicier problems yourself.\n■ AI Companions and Reality: What happens to relationships, emotional intelligence and our sense of what’s real when AI is endlessly agreeable, and why “seeing is no longer believing.”\n■ A National Plan for Change: Why we need change management for a whole society, and his advice for individuals: practise exposing yourself to small doses of uncertainty and reframing them as opportunity.\n01:32 Intro: What Is a Neurofuturist?\n 04:28 Why AI Is Intelligence, Not a Technology\n 07:13 What Uncertainty Does to the Brain\n 10:28 Why We Can’t Grasp Exponential Change\n 13:11 The Future of Work: Entrepreneurs, UBI...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/fqgwq7RLVs9N5Y-RdApZsEWFGm9kndYxvGWCLGKGuqA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82MmRl/ZjQ3MzAxZDcyMDc0/MWY3ZjFkN2I0ZWEy/NDY1My5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}