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Nature shows human+AI teams crush generative tasks but worsen decision‑making. AI boosts creativity yet scrambles judgment. MIT EEG data backs it up: people writing with ChatGPT showed lower brain activity, weak recall and little ownership of their work vs. unaided thinking (Google sits in the middle). Cognitive offloading feels efficient, but it quietly erodes critical faculties and agency. This “cognitive debt” compounds: short‑term ease, long‑term decline in reasoning, creativity and resistance to manipulation. The Matthew Effect kicks in — strong thinkers use AI as leverage, everyone else atrophies. We should treat AI as a generative exoskeleton, not a decision‑making prosthesis. Use it to explore ideas, not to replace the hard work of thinking. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/steanlab_cognitivedebt-ai-artificialintelligence-activity-7343286850259673088-nabN

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