What does AI do to our brains: smarter, dumber or just evolving?

What does AI do to our brains: smarter, dumber or just evolving?

By Anna Lozynski – Contributor
Publication Date: 2025-11-23 22:29:00

As AI finds its way into every corner of daily life, researchers are tracking how it is rewiring our attention and habits. The early findings raise real questions about how we use it, not just what it can do. writes Anna Lozynski.

Recently, I found myself in an intense debate with one of my most trusted mentors about what artificial intelligence is doing to our brains.

Not abstract. Not as a headline. But really: what is it? do in the way we think, learn, remember and make decisions?

It was a conversation full of concern and curiosity. And lots of “but is it”? Because if there’s one thing we’ve learned from the advent of the Internet and social media, it’s that new technologies are changing not only our behavior, but also our biology.

For example, there is now something called mobile phone hunger.

As Johann Hari writes Stolen focussocial…