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Is AI Making Us Forget How to Think? The Real Cost of “Brain Rot"
Last spring, a Wharton professor, Shiri Melumad, gave 250 people a simple task: write advice to a friend on living a healthier lifestyle. Half of them used AI-generated summaries . The others used good old-fashioned Google Search . The difference? Massive. The AI group’s answers were painfully generic: “eat healthy,” “drink water,” “get sleep.”The search group, meanwhile, shared nuanced advice about physical, mental, and emotional wellness, actual insight, not copy-paste moti
Nov 73 min read
Surgeon General Diagnoses Social Media as a Public Health Crisis
Social media was supposed to bring us together. Global communities. Shared creativity. A space to belong. And it did, until it didn’t. At a recent Dartmouth and United Nations symposium , six former U.S. Surgeons General, Vivek Murthy, Jerome Adams, Antonia Coello Novello, Joycelyn Elders, Richard Carmona, and David Satcher, delivered a unanimous message: Social media isn’t just shaping the minds of young people. It’s shaping their health. A Generation in Distress “When one i
Oct 313 min read
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