Quo Vadis, AI? Study Suggests AI Use Makes Us Lazier And Less Intelligent Authored by Walker Larson via The Epoch Times , The Oxford word of the year in 2024 was "brain rot," due to a 230 percent increase in usage of the term between 2023 and 2024.
The moniker reflected a collective sense - already on the rise in 2023 - that our heavy use of digital technology has corroded our ability to think. Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty Images Now, in the futuristic era of artificial intelligence known as 2026, brain rot has acquired a whole new level of relevance.
Now that it's possible to outsource complex questions or research problems to a tool that summons answers in seconds, seemingly siphoning them out of mid-air, we need to take stock of how reliance on these digital genies blunts our own mental sharpness .
Well, a recent study presented at the Conference on Language Modeling confirms our worst fears about how using AI may be diminishing our own brainpower.