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Fоllоw the directiоns below to complete the аctivity: Step 1 Reаd the Following Excerpt from Dr. Sewаk. This excerpt discusses new research on AI and the developing brain. If you would like to read the entire article, you may click the link below. Inside the Brain on ChatGPT: The Alarming Neurological Evidence "The most compelling evidence of this phenomenon comes from studies using electroencephalography (EEG) — or brainwave scans — to monitor neural activity during AI-assisted tasks. A widely discussed study from the MIT Media Lab serves as the evidentiary centerpiece. Researchers tracked the brain activity of students writing essays under different conditions: working unaided, using Google for research, or using ChatGPT from the outset. The results were stark. Students working unaided showed the highest levels of connectivity in the frontal-parietal and semantic networks — the brain’s command center for executive function, deep thinking, and piecing together complex ideas. Conversely, students who relied on ChatGPT from the start demonstrated the lowest connectivity. Expert commentary analyzing the MIT data reported a shocking statistic: a 47% collapse in brain activity in the ChatGPT group compared to the control group. “The EEG data doesn’t just suggest cognitive offloading; it provides a direct visualization of the brain going dark. We are witnessing the neurological signature of intellectual outsourcing in real time.” The implication is clear: when the AI handles the intellectual heavy lifting, the brain effectively clocks out. Crucially, these effects appear to linger. The MIT study found that participants who first used the LLM and were then asked to write independently struggled to re-engage the necessary neural networks. The “offloading” mindset persisted even when the tool was removed, suggesting that repeated use establishes a pattern of reduced cognitive effort — the hallmark of accumulating cognitive debt. Forgetting What You “Wrote”: AI’s Impact on Memory and Creativity The reduction in neural engagement has a direct and measurable consequence on performance, particularly concerning memory retention and creativity. If the brain does not engage in the effortful process of encoding information, that information is quickly lost. The MIT study quantified this effect: 83% of participants who used ChatGPT could not recall key points or provide accurate quotes from the essays they had just produced. “We are moving from a model of authorship to one of prompt management. This shift not only severs our intellectual ownership of the final product but also cripples the memory encoding that makes knowledge truly ours.” This memory deficit is tightly coupled with a diminished “sense of authorship.” When users bypass the difficult processes of synthesis and articulation, they also bypass the deep encoding essential for both memory and intellectual ownership. The user becomes a spectator to their own output. Furthermore, the research suggests that bypassing the mental struggle also flattens creativity. The outputs generated by the heavy-AI-use groups were frequently described as “linguistically bland.” By optimizing for the path of least resistance, current AI designs appear to reduce the originality and nuance that emerge from genuine intellectual engagement." A 47% Collapse in Brain Activity Synthesizing the Data on How LLMs Affect Neural Engagement and Memory Reference Sewak, M. (2025). A 47% collapse in brain activity: Synthesizing the data on how LLMs affect neural engagement and memory. Medium: Data Science Collective, Retrieved from: https://medium.com/data-science-collective/a-47-collapse-in-brain-activity-9cdf352f349e (This is just one study that needs to be replicated. However, the content here is something we need to consider as we look at cognitive development this semester. Step 2 | Write your Reaction Summarize and react to the content. Below are some questions to consider: Should students be allowed to use AI in high school and college? Why or why not? What are the dangers to the use AI when the brain is still developing through early adulthood? Why based on the passage do you think I consider its use academic misconduct without specific guidance from me? How can we teach students to use AI in an online course and ensure they are not cognitively offloading creativity, memory, and critical thinking to AI? If you want, you can give an assignment here that you think could ensure the use of AI without cognitive offloading. Does it concern you that using AI could decrease your cognitive ability? Step 3 | Submit Your Work You are to complete this assignment while being monitored by Honorlock. You are to use no other resources than the information provided above. This writing sample should be completed without any assistance and will be used to compare future work in writing style for academic honesty. If evidence from honorlock is given that you used, books, cell phone, another device, another individual, AI or the Internet to complete this writing, you will be given a zero. If another academic misconduct arises during the term, you will fail the course. You are to write your response will the camera is recording. You do not have to have your side camera yet for this assignment. Your web camera built into your computer will be adequate. Once you finish typing your response, you should submit to me.
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