AI: Atrofierea Inteligenței ⁉

This isn't a video about how we're all going to lose our minds to artificial intelligence. I just wanted to find a better metaphor than "brain rot" for what recent studies are saying happens to our thinking when we expose ourselves to too much AI. As always, I hope you enjoy the result. References Studies used in documentaries (selective): https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/yo... https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/resea... https://www.nature.com/articles/s4156... https://www.nature.com/articles/s4156... https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.04984 http s://arxiv.org/abs/2412.02802 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s... https://www.thelancet.com/journals/la... https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-earl... https://mlq.ai/media/quarterly_decks/... Articles used in documentation (selective): MIT Finds 95% Of GenAI Pilots Fail Because Companies Avoid Friction, Forbes AI Adoption Rate Trending Down for Large Companies, Apollo Academy Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College, New York Magazine College Students Are Sprinkling Typos Into Their AI Papers on Purpose, Futurism Instagram's chatbot helped teen accounts plan suicide — and parents can't disable it, The Washington Post LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything, The Register Chapters 00:00 Introduction 03:55 Cognitive debts 12:09 Critical thinking and creativity 20:03 New times